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Internet Archive Bot

The Internet Archive bot, also known as archive.org_bot, is the web crawler for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It systematically crawls and preserves publicly accessible web pages for historical record.
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What is Internet Archive Bot?

Internet Archive Bot is Internet Archive's web archiver. The Internet Archive bot, also known as archive.org_bot, is the web crawler for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It systematically crawls and preserves publicly accessible web pages for historical record.

Internet Archive Bot preserves copies of pages over time. Archived snapshots outlive your live site, and AI systems frequently train on and cite archived copies, so what Internet Archive Bot captures can keep shaping how your brand is described long after you change or remove a page.

Like any automated client, Internet Archive Bot consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

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How to handle Internet Archive Bot

Most sites leave Internet Archive Bot allowed, since public archives are widely used for research and citation. Disallow it if you do not want durable third-party copies of your pages.

To control Internet Archive Bot, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

Internet Archive Bot generally honors robots.txt directives.

Examples

  • A site owner reviews which pages Internet Archive Bot has captured before retiring an old section of the site.
  • A compliance team keeps Internet Archive Bot allowed so a public record of what was published continues to exist.

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Internet Archive Bot is operated by Internet Archive. It functions as Internet Archive's web archiver.

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