Webzio-Extended

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What is Webzio-Extended?

About

Webzio-Extended is a web crawler used by Webz.io to maintain a repository of web crawl data that it sells to other companies, including those using it to train AI models.

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Detail

Operator Webz.io
Documentation https://webz.io/bot.html

Type

AI Data Scraper
Downloads web content to train AI models

Expected Behavior

It's generally unclear how AI data scrapers choose which websites to crawl and how often to crawl them. They might choose to visits websites with a higher information density more frequently, depending on the type of AI models they're training. For example, it would make sense that an agent training an LLM (Large Language Model) would favor sites with a lot of regularly updating text content.

Insights

Webzio-Extended's Activity on Your Website

Half 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

1%
of top websites are currently blocking Webzio-Extended in some way
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Access Control

Should I Block Webzio-Extended?

It's up to you. AI data scrapers usually download publicly available internet content, which is freely accessible by default. However, you might want to block them if you're concerned about attribution or how your creative work could be used in the resulting AI model.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token Description
Webzio-Extended Should match instances of Webzio-Extended

You can block Webzio-Extended or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This should block Webzio-Extended

User-agent: Webzio-Extended
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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