archive.org_bot

What is archive.org_bot?

About

archive.org_bot is the Internet Archive's web crawler for the Wayback Machine, systematically crawling and preserving publicly accessible web pages for historical record and research. You can see how often archive.org_bot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Archivers visit websites on a roughly regular cadence, since snapshots are more useful when they're regularly spaced out. Popular websites will have more frequent visits since they are more likely to be queried in the historical database in the future.

Type

Archiver
Snapshots websites for historical databases

Detail

Operated By Internet Archive
Last Updated 14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1%
1% of top websites are blocking archive.org_bot
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Country of Origin

United States
archive.org_bot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Archivers

Top Visited Website Categories

Books and Literature
Health
Home and Garden
News
Science
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Robots.txt

Should I Block archive.org_bot?

It's up to you. Digital archiving is generally done to preserve a historical record. If you don't want to be part of that record for some reason, you can block archivers.

How Do I Block archive.org_bot?

You can block archive.org_bot 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.

How Do I Block All Archivers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new archivers automatically.
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; archive.org_bot +http://archive.org/details/archive.org_bot) Zeno/a07610d warc/v0.8.85
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: archive.org_bot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/archive-org-bot
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

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