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Instapaper

Name: Instapaper
Author: Instant Paper

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Instapaper is an app that lets people save articles to read later. Operated by Instant Paper.

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Assessment

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What is Instapaper?

Instapaper is a web crawler operated by Instant Paper. Instapaper is an app that lets people save articles to read later.

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

Identification

Bot name

Instapaper

Operator

Instant Paper

Why it crawls your site

Instapaper crawls websites to collect and process web content. It is operated by Instant Paper 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 Instapaper

Block it

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

# Allow Instapaper full access
User-agent: Instapaper
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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