Meltwater

Last updated a day ago.

What is Meltwater?

About

Meltwater is an uncategorized agent. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.

Track Meltwater Visiting Your Website

You can see when Meltwater visits your website using the API or WordPress plugin.

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Type

Uncategorized

Not currently assigned a type

Expected Behavior

Behavior will vary depending on whether this agent is a search engine crawler, data scraper, archiver, one-off fetcher, etc.

Insights

Meltwater'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

of top websites are currently blocking Meltwater in some way

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Access Control

Should I Block Meltwater?

It's difficult to say without a type. Its purposes could either be good or bad for your website, depending on what it is.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token	Description
`Meltwater`	Should match instances of Meltwater

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

# robots.txt
# This should block Meltwater

User-agent: Meltwater
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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