Archive-It — What It Is and How to Handle It

Archive-It is a web archiving crawler operated by Internet Archive that preserves copies of web pages for long-term digital preservation and historical record-keeping.

Operator: Internet Archive | Type: Archiver | Category: Archiver

Archive-It 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 Archive-It 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.