ICC Crawler
GoodBotVerifiedBOTICC-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.
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.
Identification
ICC-Crawler/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
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: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows ICC-Crawler/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to NICT's documentation.
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