ArchiveBot
Archive Team web crawler for preservation
About this crawler
ArchiveBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ArchiveBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as archiver. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ArchiveBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.33%
Technical details
- Name
- ArchiveBot
- Pattern
ArchiveBot- Tags
- archiver
- Reference
- https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot
- Added
- 2018/02/28
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
ArchiveTeam ArchiveBot/20170106.02 (wpull 2.0.2)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ArchiveBot:
User-agent: ArchiveBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ArchiveBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ArchiveBot") {
return 403;
}
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