TurnitinBot

What is TurnitinBot?

About

TurnitinBot is an intelligence gatherer operated by Turnitin. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often TurnitinBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.

Type

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

Detail

Operated By Turnitin
Last Updated 13 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

6%
6% of top websites are blocking TurnitinBot
Learn How →

Country of Origin

United States
TurnitinBot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

Top Visited Website Categories

Hobbies and Leisure
Travel and Transportation
Health
Shopping
Home and Garden
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Robots.txt

Should I Block TurnitinBot?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

How Do I Block TurnitinBot?

⚠️ 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.

You can block TurnitinBot 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 TurnitinBot (https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html)
# robots.txt
# This should block TurnitinBot

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

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