ParseLy is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Parse.ly.
Popular content analytics tool used by many major media and content teams.
Monitoring bots check uptime, performance and page changes on behalf of a site owner or a third party. Allow the services you run yourself and exclude them from analytics so they do not inflate page views.
ParseLy identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; parse.ly scraper/0.16; +http://parsely.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.
ParseLy 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: ParseLy Disallow: /
User-agent: ParseLy Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: ParseLy Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: ParseLy Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: ParseLy group, ParseLy ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.ParseLy from ParseLy's user agent; check Parse.ly'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 ParseLy if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersParseLy is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow ParseLy only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf ParseLy 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 ParseLy 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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ParseLy is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Parse.ly. Popular content analytics tool used by many major media and content teams.
Yes. ParseLy follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the ParseLy user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.
Add "User-agent: ParseLy" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "parsely.com" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so ParseLy may not follow it, and anyone can send ParseLy's user agent, so a fake ParseLy ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Monitoring bots check uptime, performance and page changes on behalf of a site owner or a third party. Allow the services you run yourself and exclude them from analytics so they do not inflate page views.
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