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FactSet bots and crawlers
FactSet provides financial data and analytics.
FactSet bots at a glance
- FactSet runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Training Crawlers.
- Each FactSet bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.factset.com
Every FactSet bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factset_spyderbot | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingReported | Not documented | Your choice |
Block or allow all FactSet bots
The rules below name every FactSet 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 FactSet bots
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all FactSet bots
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all FactSet bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all FactSet bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Factset_spyderbot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all FactSet bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Factset_spyderbot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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