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IAS crawler

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Integral Ad Science (IAS) is the global market leader in digital ad verification, offering technologies that drive high-quality advertising media. Operated by Integral Ad Science.

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Assessment

Advertising & Marketing

What is IAS crawler?

IAS crawler is a web crawler operated by Integral Ad Science. Integral Ad Science (IAS) is the global market leader in digital ad verification, offering technologies that drive high-quality advertising media.

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

Identification

Bot name

IAS crawler

Operator

Integral Ad Science

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

IAS crawler crawls websites to collect data for advertising and marketing purposes. It is operated by Integral Ad Science as part of their advertising infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow IAS crawler

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for ias_crawler 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 IAS crawler from crawling your entire site
User-agent: ias_crawler
Disallow: /

# Allow IAS crawler full access
User-agent: ias_crawler
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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