ICC Crawler
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Operated by NICT
ai crawler
ICC-Crawler automatically crawls the Internet and collects web pages. ICC-Crawler is operated by the Universal Communication Research Institute at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
ICC-Crawler/
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control ICC Crawler:
Allow full access
User-agent: ICC-Crawler/
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: ICC-Crawler/
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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