Shortwave Image Fetcher

What is Shortwave Image Fetcher?

About

Shortwave Image Fetcher is a privacy-focused service that proxies images from HTML emails through Shortwave's servers to protect users' IP addresses and maintain email privacy when viewing content in their AI-powered email client. You can see how often Shortwave Image Fetcher visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By Shortwave Communications Inc.
Last Updated 10 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Shortwave Image Fetcher
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Country of Origin

Unknown
Shortwave Image Fetcher has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Shortwave Image Fetcher?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block Shortwave Image Fetcher?

⚠️ 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 Shortwave Image Fetcher 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.

# robots.txt
# This should block Shortwave Image Fetcher

User-agent: Shortwave Image Fetcher
Disallow: /

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