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ICC Crawler

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ICC-Crawler automatically crawls the Internet and collects web pages. ICC-Crawler is operated by the Universal Communication Research Institute at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). Operated by NICT.

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Assessment

AI Crawler

What is ICC Crawler?

ICC Crawler is a web crawler operated by NICT. ICC-Crawler automatically crawls the Internet and collects web pages. ICC-Crawler is operated by the Universal Communication Research Institute at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). It is part of the growing wave of AI-powered crawlers that collect web data for training and improving AI models.

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

Identification

Bot name

ICC Crawler

Operator

NICT

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

Yes

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

ICC Crawler crawls websites to collect and process web content for AI model training and improvement. It is operated by NICT as part of their AI and machine learning infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow ICC Crawler

Block it

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

# Allow ICC Crawler full access
User-agent: ICC-Crawler/
Allow: /