ArquivoWebCrawler is a bot in the web archivers category, operated by Arquivo.
Web crawler archives the Portuguese web
Archivers save copies of pages to preserve the history of the web. Archived copies can be read outside your paywall or ads. Decide whether long term preservation matters more for your content.
ArquivoWebCrawler identifies itself with this user agent string:
Arquivo-web-crawler (compatible; heritrix/3.4.0-20200304 +https://arquivo.pt/faq-crawling)Anyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
ArquivoWebCrawler follows robots.txt, so these rules stop it crawling the paths you choose. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler Disallow: /
User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler group, ArquivoWebCrawler ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.Arquivo-web-crawler from ArquivoWebCrawler's user agent; check Arquivo's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
Allow ArquivoWebCrawler if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersArquivoWebCrawler is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow ArquivoWebCrawler only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf ArquivoWebCrawler is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows ArquivoWebCrawler by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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ArquivoWebCrawler is a bot in the web archivers category, operated by Arquivo. Web crawler archives the Portuguese web
Yes. ArquivoWebCrawler follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the Arquivo-web-crawler user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.
Add "User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "Arquivo-web-crawler" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so ArquivoWebCrawler may not follow it, and anyone can send ArquivoWebCrawler's user agent, so a fake ArquivoWebCrawler ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Archivers save copies of pages to preserve the history of the web. Archived copies can be read outside your paywall or ads. Decide whether long term preservation matters more for your content.
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