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The AddThis bot crawls websites to gather and update content for its website marketing tools. These tools include features like social sharing buttons and content recommendation widgets. Operated by AddThis.

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Assessment
SEO
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is AddThis?

AddThis is a web crawler operated by AddThis. The AddThis bot crawls websites to gather and update content for its website marketing tools. These tools include features like social sharing buttons and content recommendation widgets.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name
AddThis
Operator
AddThis
Category
SEO
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
addthis
User-agent patterns
AddThis
User-agent string
AddThis.com (http://support.addthis.com/)
Main use cases
SEO analysisBacklink discoverySearch ranking monitoring

Why it crawls your site

AddThis crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by AddThis as part of their SEO analysis infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow AddThis

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for AddThis in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block AddThis from crawling your entire site
User-agent: AddThis
Disallow: /

# Allow AddThis full access
User-agent: AddThis
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows AddThis. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to AddThis's documentation.

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

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Last updated July 26, 2026