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Apify Website Content Crawler

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Crawl websites and extract content to feed AI apps. Convert web data to Markdown or HTML, download files, and more. Operated by Apify.

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Assessment

AI Assistant

What is Apify Website Content Crawler?

Apify Website Content Crawler is a web crawler operated by Apify. Crawl websites and extract content to feed AI apps. Convert web data to Markdown or HTML, download files, and more.

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

Identification

Bot name

Apify Website Content Crawler

Operator

Apify

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Apify Website Content Crawler crawls websites to collect and process web content. It is operated by Apify as part of their web crawling infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Apify Website Content Crawler

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler 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 Apify Website Content Crawler from crawling your entire site
User-agent: ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler
Disallow: /

# Allow Apify Website Content Crawler full access
User-agent: ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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