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Parse.ly

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Popular content analytics tool used by many major media and content teams. Operated by Parse.ly.

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Assessment
Monitoring & Analytics
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is Parse.ly?

Parse.ly is a web crawler operated by Parse.ly. Popular content analytics tool used by many major media and content teams.

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

Identification

Bot name
Parse.ly
Operator
Parse.ly
Category
Monitoring & Analytics
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
parsely
User-agent patterns
parsely.com
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; parse.ly scraper/0.16; +http://parsely.com)
Main use cases
Website monitoringPerformance trackingUptime checking

Why it crawls your site

Parse.ly crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Parse.ly as part of their monitoring and analytics infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Parse.ly

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for parsely.com 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 Parse.ly from crawling your entire site
User-agent: parsely.com
Disallow: /

# Allow Parse.ly full access
User-agent: parsely.com
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows parsely.com. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Parse.ly's documentation.

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated July 21, 2026