InternetArchive is a bot in the web archivers category, operated by Internet Archive.
The Internet Archive bot, also known as archive.org_bot, is the web crawler for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It systematically crawls and preserves publicly accessible web pages for historical record.
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.
Sample user agent strings sent by InternetArchive:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; special_archiver/3.1.1 +http://www.archive.org/details/archive.org_bot)Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; archive.org_bot +http://www.archive.org/details/archive.org_bot)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.
InternetArchive 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: archive.org_bot Disallow: /
User-agent: archive.org_bot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: archive.org_bot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: archive.org_bot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: archive.org_bot group, InternetArchive ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.archive.org_bot from InternetArchive's user agent; check Internet Archive'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 InternetArchive if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersInternetArchive is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow InternetArchive only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf InternetArchive 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 InternetArchive 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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InternetArchive is a bot in the web archivers category, operated by Internet Archive. The Internet Archive bot, also known as archive.org_bot, is the web crawler for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It systematically crawls and preserves publicly accessible web pages for historical record.
Yes. InternetArchive follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the archive.org_bot user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.
Add "User-agent: archive.org_bot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "archive.org_bot" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so InternetArchive may not follow it, and anyone can send InternetArchive's user agent, so a fake InternetArchive 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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