ArchiveBot

archiver 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%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: ArchiveBot
2026-05-012026-06-040.43%

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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