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Apify bots and crawlers
Apify runs a web scraping and automation platform.
Apify bots at a glance
- Apify runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Training Crawlers.
- Each Apify bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: apify.com
Every Apify bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler | AI Training Crawlers | Product featureReported | Not documented | Your choice |
Block or allow all Apify bots
The rules below name every Apify token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Apify bots
User-agent: ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Apify bots
User-agent: ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Apify bots out of private areas only
User-agent: ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Apify bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Apify bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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