Who operates Epivoz Crawler?

Epivoz Crawler is operated by Techmeme. It functions as Techmeme's content aggregator.

Does Epivoz Crawler respect robots.txt?

Techmeme has not published a robots.txt commitment for Epivoz Crawler. Treat its behavior as unconfirmed and watch your access logs to see whether your rules are honored.

Should I block Epivoz Crawler?

It depends on your distribution strategy. Keep Epivoz Crawler allowed to reach the audiences it serves, or disallow it to keep readers on your own site.

Epivoz Crawler - What It Is & How to Handle It

What is Epivoz Crawler?

Epivoz Crawler is Techmeme's content aggregator. News aggregator needs to crawl news/blog articles to generate short summaries for page preview of attributed links.

Epivoz Crawler collects and redistributes content from across the web, so pages it can reach may be surfaced to audiences well beyond your own site. Aggregated copies also become part of the corpus AI systems draw on, which makes it worth knowing what Epivoz Crawler takes and how often.

Like any automated client, Epivoz Crawler 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 Epivoz Crawler

Allow Epivoz Crawler if you want your content distributed through the feeds and apps it supplies. Disallow it if you would rather people reach that content only on your own site.

To control Epivoz Crawler, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: EpivozCrawler
Disallow: /

Techmeme does not publish a robots.txt commitment for Epivoz Crawler, so confirm how it behaves by watching your access logs.

Examples

A publisher checks how often Epivoz Crawler pulls new articles and whether the aggregated version links back to the original.
An editor keeps Epivoz Crawler allowed so new posts reach the readers of the apps it supplies.