What is StrivveAutomation?

StrivveAutomation is an AI agent in the AI assistants and agents category, operated by Strivve.

Bot name
StrivveAutomation
Operator
Strivve
Type
AI agent
Respects robots.txt
Not confirmed
robots.txt user agent
StrivveAutomation
Signs requests (Web Bot Auth)
Yes

About StrivveAutomation

Strivve Web Bot Authentication Agent

AI assistants fetch pages on demand when a user asks a chatbot or an agent to read, summarise or act on a URL. Each request is tied to a person, but the visit carries no ad impressions or analytics. Decide per agent whether the value is worth the load.

StrivveAutomation user agent

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.

How to block StrivveAutomation in robots.txt

We have not confirmed whether StrivveAutomation 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.

Block StrivveAutomation from the whole site

User-agent: StrivveAutomation
Disallow: /

Block StrivveAutomation from some folders

User-agent: StrivveAutomation
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /search

Allow StrivveAutomation only on some folders

User-agent: StrivveAutomation
Allow: /blog/
Disallow: /

Allow StrivveAutomation and block other crawlers

User-agent: StrivveAutomation
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Things to know

  • Each host needs its own file. Rules on www.example.com do not apply to shop.example.com.
  • A crawler obeys only the most specific group that names it. Once you add a User-agent: StrivveAutomation group, StrivveAutomation ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.
  • The user agent name is not case sensitive. We take StrivveAutomation from StrivveAutomation's user agent; check Strivve's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.
  • Crawlers cache robots.txt, so changes can take up to a day to apply. Disallow stops crawling but does not remove pages already collected or indexed.

Limits of robots.txt

  1. StrivveAutomation may not follow the rule. robots.txt is a request that nothing enforces, and we have not confirmed that StrivveAutomation follows it. Check your logs after adding a rule.
  2. The user agent could be fake. robots.txt matches the name a request claims. Anyone can send StrivveAutomation's user agent, and a scraper using it is not bound by Strivve's robots.txt policy. Only checking the source network tells a real StrivveAutomation from a fake one.

Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.

Who should care about StrivveAutomation

Publishers

StrivveAutomation reads pages for a person who asked an AI about them. The visit carries no ad impressions, so exclude it from ad requests and decide whether it may read paywalled content.

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Media buyers and advertisers

Agent visits can click through landing pages and fill in forms. Exclude StrivveAutomation from conversions so campaign optimisation is based on people.

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E-commerce

Agents like StrivveAutomation can compare prices and may soon place orders. Decide whether agents may reach checkout, and verify them before they do.

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SaaS and APIs

StrivveAutomation can sign up, log in and call endpoints on a user's behalf. Rate limit it on sign-up and API routes, where fake trials and abuse start.

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Block StrivveAutomation with Transfon Security

robots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows StrivveAutomation 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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Control StrivveAutomation on your site

  • See every StrivveAutomation visit and the pages it reads
  • Spot bots that fake trusted crawler names
  • Block, allow or rate limit StrivveAutomation with one rule
  • Works with or without robots.txt support

Frequently asked questions

What is StrivveAutomation?

StrivveAutomation is an AI agent in the AI assistants and agents category, operated by Strivve. Strivve Web Bot Authentication Agent

Does StrivveAutomation respect robots.txt?

We have not confirmed whether StrivveAutomation 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.

How do I block StrivveAutomation?

Add "User-agent: StrivveAutomation" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "StrivveAutomation" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.

Is robots.txt enough to block StrivveAutomation?

No. robots.txt is voluntary, so StrivveAutomation may not follow it, and anyone can send StrivveAutomation's user agent, so a fake StrivveAutomation ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.

Should I block StrivveAutomation?

AI assistants fetch pages on demand when a user asks a chatbot or an agent to read, summarise or act on a URL. Each request is tied to a person, but the visit carries no ad impressions or analytics. Decide per agent whether the value is worth the load.

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