Hype Machine

What is Hype Machine?

About

Hype Machine crawls music publications and blogs since 2005 to discover new artist posts and builds curated playlists from this metadata for music listeners and discovery. You can see how often Hype Machine visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Search engine crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including popularity, the rate at which its content is updated, and the website's overall trustworthiness. Websites with fresh, high-quality content tend to be crawled more frequently, while less active or less reputable sites may be visited less often.

Type

Detail

Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers

Robots.txt

Should I Block Hype Machine?

Probably not. Search engine crawlers power search engines, which are a useful way for users to discover your website. In fact, blocking search engine crawlers could severely reduce your traffic.

How Do I Block Hype Machine?

You can block Hype Machine 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.

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Hype Machine # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/hype-machine
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.

References

• https://hypem.com/about