Authory is a bot in the web archivers category, operated by Authory.
The Authory bot visits websites to back up articles on behalf of journalists and other writers who use the service.
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.
Authory identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Authory/1.0; +https://authory.com/)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.
We have not confirmed whether Authory follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: Authory Disallow: /
User-agent: Authory Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: Authory Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: Authory Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: Authory group, Authory ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.Authory from Authory's user agent; check Authory'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 Authory if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersAuthory is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow Authory only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf Authory 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 Authory 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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Authory is a bot in the web archivers category, operated by Authory. The Authory bot visits websites to back up articles on behalf of journalists and other writers who use the service.
We have not confirmed whether Authory follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.
Add "User-agent: Authory" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "Authory/" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so Authory may not follow it, and anyone can send Authory's user agent, so a fake Authory 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.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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