AI crawlers · Training crawlers
archive.org_bot
archive.org_bot is the training crawler run by Internet Archive: captures pages for the Wayback Machine. Its operator publishes no IP ranges or DNS names for it, so a request carrying this name cannot be verified. Treat the name in a log line as a claim.
| User-agent token | archive.org_bot |
| Operator | Internet Archive |
| What it does | captures pages for the Wayback Machine |
| Kind | training crawler |
| Can a request be verified? | No — user agent string only |
| In a CrawlCheck scan | Read from robots.txt; reported, never scored |
Allow or block it in robots.txt
User-agent: archive.org_bot Disallow: /
User-agent: archive.org_bot Allow: /
Add a group that names it: "User-agent: archive.org_bot" followed by "Disallow: /". A crawler follows only the most specific group that names it, so once a group names archive.org_bot, rules under "User-agent: *" no longer apply to it; repeat in that group any Disallow lines you still want.
What blocking it changes
No. It collects pages for training. Refusing it is a policy choice about training, separate from whether answer engines can reach, read and quote the site.
Other agents from Internet Archive
ia_archiver— Internet Archive (legacy)
See what archive.org_bot and every other named agent receive from your own site: run a free scan. The full catalogue is on AI crawlers and as JSON at /ai-crawlers.json.