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.
Agent Type
Expected Behavior
Scrapers extract data from websites for various purposes including research, price monitoring, content aggregation, lead generation, and unauthorized copying. Their behavior is highly unpredictable due to diverse use cases and operators. Scrapers are frequently configured to ignore robots.txt rules and may aggressively crawl sites to achieve their collection goals. They can range from respectful tools that identify themselves clearly, to aggressive bots that disguise their identity, overwhelm servers, and extract content without permission.
Detail
| Operated By | Zyte |
| Last Updated | 2 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Scrapers
Top Visited Website Categories
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?
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) |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Scrapy # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/scrapy
Disallow: /
⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.