AddThis

GoodBotVerifiedSEOBOT

Operated by AddThis Docs

What is AddThis?

Generated from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

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.

Details

Bot Name
AddThis
Slug
addthis
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified by Cloudflare
Category
SEO
Operator
AddThis

User-Agent Patterns

AddThis

Full User-Agent Strings

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.

How to Block / Whitelist

Block AddThis

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: /

Whitelist AddThis

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

Traffic & Trends

Cloudflare Radar Traffic

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Google Trends Interest

Links & References

AddThis Documentation

docs.oracle.com/en

Wikipedia: AddThis

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AddThis

Cloudflare Radar: AddThis

radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/bots/addthis

Data Sources

This profile was compiled from the following sources:

CloudflareRadar

Last updated: May 26, 2026