Overview
IA Archiver Web Archive is an archive crawler from Internet Archive used for web archiving, preservation crawls, historical capture, and public record indexing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is ia_archiver-web.archive.org; related patterns include ia-archiver-web-archive-org; ia_archiver.
IA Archiver Web Archive is not independently verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Documented, and the evidence basis is observed traffic patterns and user-agent evidence.
IA Archiver Web Archive is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
IA Archiver Web Archive should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent
ia_archiver-web.archive.org- Aliases
- ia-archiver-web-archive-org; ia_archiver
- HTTP Agent Examples
ia_archiver-web.archive.org- Robots.txt Token
ia_archiver-web.archive.org- Identity Type
- Documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify IA Archiver Web Archive by matching `ia_archiver-web.archive.org` to Internet Archive evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Archiver
- Kind
- Archiver
- Family
- Internet Archive
- Purpose
- web-archiving
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- IA Archiver Web Archive is used for web archiving, preservation crawls, historical capture, and public record indexing.
- Detection Notes
- IA Archiver Web Archive traffic is primarily detected by the `ia_archiver-web.archive.org` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `ia-archiver-web-archive-org; ia_archiver`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Internet Archive infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- IA Archiver Web Archive has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org Disallow: /