spanner

Last updated 17 hours ago.

spanner is an uncategorized agent. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.

You can set up agent analytics to see when spanner visits your website.

Type

Uncategorized

Not currently assigned a type

Expected Behavior

Behavior will vary depending on whether this agent is a search engine crawler, data scraper, archiver, one-off fetcher, etc.

Insights

spanner Visiting Your Website

50% of your traffic probably comes from artificial agents, and there are more of them every day. Track their activity with the API or WordPress plugin.

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Other Websites

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Access Control

Should I Block spanner?

It's difficult to say without a type. Its purposes could either be good or bad for your website, depending on what it is.

Using Robots.txt

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

User Agent Token	Description
`spanner`	Should match instances of spanner

# robots.txt
# This should block spanner

User-agent: spanner
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

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