ia_archiver

Internet Archive · Archivers · json

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenia_archiver
User-agent containsia_archiver
OperatorInternet Archive
CategoryArchivers
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify byno published verification method

What it is

The legacy Alexa/Internet Archive token, still present in most robots.txt files and still occasionally honoured.

What blocking it costs you

Negligible today; retain for tidiness.

Full user-agent string

ia_archiver (+http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters; crawler@alexa.com)

Allow it instead

User-agent: ia_archiver
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://archive.org/details/archive.org_bot
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · maximum-ai-visibility