# archive.org_bot

> The Wayback Machine's crawler. Preservation rather than AI, but it lands in the same 'is this bot welcome' decision and its output is a public corpus.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Internet Archive |
| category | Archivers |
| robots.txt token | `archive.org_bot` |
| user-agent contains | `archive.org_bot` |
| robots.txt | obeys robots.txt (documented) |
| verify by | no published verification method |
| published IP ranges | none published |
| prefixes mirrored | 0 IPv4 / 0 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://archive.org/details/archive.org_bot |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## What blocking it costs you

Your site stops being preserved. When it dies, it is gone. Consider this one separately from the AI question.

## Full user-agent string

```
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; archive.org_bot +http://archive.org/details/archive.org_bot)
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: archive.org_bot
Allow: /
```

JSON: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/archive-org-bot.json · index: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/llms.txt