Nutch

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What is Nutch?

About

Nutch is a scraper. 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 Nutch Visiting Your Website

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

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Detail

Documentation

https://nutch.apache.org/

Type

Scraper

Downloads web content for possibly malicious purposes

Expected Behavior

Due to the wide variety of use cases, there's no way to accurately predict visitation behavior. Scrapers are notorious for ignoring robots.txt rules and accessing disallowed content. This is especially true if they're dispatched to achieve a specific goal rather than for some general purpose.

Insights

Nutch'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 Nutch in some way

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Access Control

Should I Block Nutch?

Probably. Scrapers usually download publicly available internet content, which is freely accessible by default. However, you might want to block them if you don't want your content to be used for unauthorized purposes.

Using Robots.txt

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

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

# robots.txt
# This should block Nutch

User-agent: Nutch
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.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt