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Internet Archive - Archive-It

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Internet Archive’s Archive-It service preserves publicly accessible web pages for the historical record. Operated by Archive-It.

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

What is Internet Archive - Archive-It?

Internet Archive - Archive-It is a web crawler operated by Archive-It. Internet Archive’s Archive-It service preserves publicly accessible web pages for the historical record.

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

Identification

Bot name
Internet Archive - Archive-It
Operator
Archive-It
Category
Archiver
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
internet-archive-archive-it
User-agent patterns
Archive-It
User-agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; special_archiver; Archive-It; +http://archive-it.org/files/site-owners-special.html) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; archive.org_bot; Archive-It; +http://archive-it.org/files/site-owners.html) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; special_archiver; Archive-It; +@http://archive-it.org/files/site-owners-special.html)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; archive.org_bot; Archive-It; +@http://archive-it.org/files/site-owners.html)
Main use cases
Web crawlingData collection
Rated Sep 23, 2026 from public evidence

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

Internet Archive - Archive-It crawls websites to archive and preserve web content. It is operated by Archive-It as part of their web archival infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Internet Archive - Archive-It

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Archive-It 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 Internet Archive - Archive-It from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Archive-It
Disallow: /

# Allow Internet Archive - Archive-It full access
User-agent: Archive-It
Allow: /
Allow & verify

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

Traffic & trends

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Links & references

Archive-It documentation
archive-it.org/files/site-owners.html
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Cloudflare Radar: Internet Archive - Archive-It
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/bots/internet-archive-archive-it
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated October 25, 2026

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