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Authory

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The Authory bot visits websites to back up articles on behalf of journalists and other writers who use the service. Operated by Authory.

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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 Authory?

Authory is a web crawler operated by Authory. The Authory bot visits websites to back up articles on behalf of journalists and other writers who use the service.

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

Identification

Bot name
Authory
Operator
Authory
Category
Archiver
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
authory
User-agent patterns
Authory/
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Authory/1.0; +https://authory.com/)
Main use cases
Web crawlingData collection

Why it crawls your site

Authory crawls websites to collect and process web content. It is operated by Authory 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 Authory

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Authory/ 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 Authory from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Authory/
Disallow: /

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

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

Traffic & trends

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From the community

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated September 8, 2026

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