Scrapy

Scrapy project · Tools and frameworks · json

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenScrapy
User-agent containsScrapy
OperatorScrapy project
CategoryTools and frameworks
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify byno published verification method

What it is

Not an operator: the default user-agent of the most common Python crawling framework. Anyone can be behind it. Modern Scrapy obeys robots.txt by default, which is why the default UA is still worth a rule.

What blocking it costs you

You block a very large tail of unattributed one-off crawlers, and also every well-behaved researcher who did not change the default.

Full user-agent string

Scrapy/2.11.0 (+https://scrapy.org)

Allow it instead

User-agent: Scrapy
Allow: /

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