IABot — What It Is and How to Handle It

IABot (InternetArchiveBot) is a Wikipedia bot operated by the Internet Archive that combats link rot by finding dead links on Wikipedia articles and adding archived versions from the Wayback Machine to preserve reference accessibility.

Operator: the | Type: Archiver | Category: Archiver

IABot 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 IABot 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.