ArchiveBot — What It Is and How to Handle It

ArchiveBot is a web archiving crawler that saves endangered websites to the Internet Archive, operated by Archive Team volunteers to preserve digital content at risk of deletion.

Operator: Wikimedia Foundation | Type: Archiver | Category: Archiver

ArchiveBot is classified as archiver. Use Centinel to monitor its behavior and decide whether to allow, block, challenge, or monetize its access to your content.

Centinel automatically detects ArchiveBot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.