What is ActiveComply?

ActiveComply is a compliance monitoring crawler that systematically scans social media platforms and websites to identify regulatory compliance violations for businesses in regulated industries like finance. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.

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Expected Behavior

ActiveComply visits with a shopping list. Expect focused, repeated requests to the pages its clients monitor, like pricing, product listings, and announcements, on schedules ranging from hourly to weekly. Sites outside a client's watchlist may never see it at all.

Overview

This data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.

ActiveComply's User Agent

Access other known user agents and IP addresses using the Enterprise API.

How To Block ActiveComply

Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block ActiveComply from accessing your entire website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.

User-agent: ActiveComply # https://knownagents.com/agents/activecomply
Disallow: /

Frequently Asked Questions

Should I Block ActiveComply?

Decide who benefits. ActiveComply collects pricing, product, and brand data for its operator's clients, and those clients can include your competitors. Allow it if visibility in market research matters to you. Block it if you would rather not hand competitors structured data about your business. Almost none of the top websites we track have robots.txt rules for ActiveComply right now.

Does ActiveComply Respect Robots.txt?

Yes. ActiveComply is expected to honor robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms ActiveComply actually honors it.

Does ActiveComply Access Private Content?

Public business information is the target. Pricing pages, product listings, and announcements are what its clients pay for. ActiveComply has no special access, but assume everything you publish openly gets collected.

Why Is ActiveComply Visiting My Website?

A client of ActiveComply is monitoring your market, your brand, or you specifically. Expect ActiveComply's visits to concentrate on pages with business value, like pricing and product pages.

How Can I Tell if ActiveComply Is Visiting My Website?

Agent Analytics tracks ActiveComply visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "ActiveComply". Look for repeated visits to pricing, product, and news pages. Keep in mind that ActiveComply doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.

References

• https://app.activecomply.com/bot