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Internet Archive - Archive-It

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Operated by Archive-It archiver

Internet Archive’s Archive-It service preserves publicly accessible web pages for the historical record.

How to identify it

User-agent contains any of:

  • Archive-It

robots.txt

Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Internet Archive - Archive-It:

Allow full access

User-agent: Archive-It
Allow: /

Block entirely

User-agent: Archive-It
Disallow: /

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