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Internet Archive bots and crawlers
The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library that runs the Wayback Machine.
Internet Archive bots at a glance
- Internet Archive runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Archives and Research Crawlers.
- Each Internet Archive bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: archive.org
Every Internet Archive bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| archive.org_bot | Archives and Research Crawlers | Product featureReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Internet Archive bots
The rules below name every Internet Archive 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 Internet Archive bots
User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Internet Archive bots
User-agent: archive.org_bot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Internet Archive bots out of private areas only
User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Internet Archive bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(archive\.org_bot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Internet Archive bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (archive\.org_bot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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