Bots by company
Integral Ad Science bots and crawlers
Integral Ad Science runs ad verification and brand safety services.
Integral Ad Science bots at a glance
- Integral Ad Science runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Ads and Platform Fetchers.
- Each Integral Ad Science bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: integralads.com
Every Integral Ad Science bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IAS crawlerias_crawler | Ads and Platform Fetchers | AdsReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Integral Ad Science bots
The rules below name every Integral Ad Science 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 Integral Ad Science bots
User-agent: ias_crawler
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Integral Ad Science bots
User-agent: ias_crawler
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Integral Ad Science bots out of private areas only
User-agent: ias_crawler
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Integral Ad Science bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(ias_crawler)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Integral Ad Science bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (ias_crawler) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "ias_crawler")See which of these bots actually reach your website
The AI Log File Analyzer by Justin Hà counts visits from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other AI crawlers in your server log, for free. The GEO Technical Package sets up robots.txt, llms.txt and crawler access for AI search.
