Scrapy

What is Scrapy?

About

Scrapy is a scraper operated by Zyte. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Scrapy visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Due to the wide variety of use cases, there's no way to accurately predict visitation behavior. Scrapers are notorious for ignoring robots.txt rules and accessing disallowed content. This is especially true if they're dispatched to achieve a specific goal rather than for some general purpose.

Type

Scraper

Downloads web content for possibly malicious purposes

Detail

Operated By	Zyte
Last Updated	1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

8% of top websites are blocking Scrapy

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Country of Origin

Singapore

Scrapy normally visits from Singapore

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Scrapers

Top Visited Website Categories

Autos and Vehicles

Food and Drink

News

Science

Business and Industrial

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Scrapy?

Probably. Scrapers usually download publicly available internet content, which is freely accessible by default. However, you might want to block them if you don't want your content to be used for unauthorized purposes.

How Do I Block Scrapy?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Scrapy or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String Scrapy/2.12.0 (+https://scrapy.org)

# robots.txt
# This should block Scrapy

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /