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Authory

The Authory bot visits websites to back up articles on behalf of journalists and other writers who use the service.
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What is Authory?

Authory visits publication sites for writers who want an automatic archive of their work. A user adds a publication as a source, and Authory looks for articles carrying that person's byline. Alternate names can be added to the account when the writer publishes under more than one byline.

Once a source is monitored, Authory keeps looking for new pieces and imports matches into the user's Content Archive. Those items can also populate an auto-updating portfolio. If Authory misses an article after a site redesign or byline change, its support team can adjust the setup and run another crawl.

The backup is not described as a screenshot or PDF. Authory says it stores a searchable text copy with the article's images. Blocking requests can therefore prevent a writer's archive from receiving a new item even though the original publication remains online.

Known requests contain Authory/1.0, but the operator does not publish an IP or DNS verification method for the crawler. Its purpose is personal archiving and portfolio maintenance, with no documented role in AI search or model training.

Indirectly relevant

Is Authory relevant for AI search?

Indirectly. Authory has no AI product of its own, but its output can end up in the systems that AI answers draw on.

Authory captures snapshots of pages and stores them, usually for good. Public archives are a common ingredient in AI training datasets, and AI tools sometimes cite an archived version when the live page is gone. What it captures today can still be describing your brand years from now.

How to handle Authory

Ask editorial staff whether anyone uses Authory before denying the crawler. An author may have requested the archive independently, and a block can stop that person's backup or portfolio from updating.

The stable product token allows this robots.txt request:

User-agent: Authory
Disallow: /

Authory's current help material does not promise robots compliance, and the supplied Cloudflare record marks the crawler as non-following. Treat the snippet as a stated preference rather than an enforceable control. Check later requests, and use authentication, a WAF rule, or a server rule if access must stop. A matching user agent is not proof of origin.

Examples

  • A columnist adds both a full name and an abbreviated byline in Authory, after which the crawler finds articles published under either form.
  • A magazine redesign causes Authory to miss recent work. The writer contacts support, and Authory runs another crawl after updating the source setup.

Frequently asked questions about Authory

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An Authory user may have added that publication as a source so the service can find and back up the user's work.

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