Hype Machine
recommended: allow
Operated by Hype Machine
search engine
Since 2005, Hype Machine monitors music publications/blogs for posts about new artists and builds playlists using this metadata for listeners.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Hype Machine
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Hype Machine:
Allow full access
User-agent: Hype Machine
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Hype Machine
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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