XY-Archive-Compliance
recommended: allowXY-Archive-Compliance creates website archives to help customers meet regulatory and legal compliance requirements for data retention and historical website preservation.
What it does
XY-Archive-Compliance periodically fetches complete pages rather than checking metadata alone. Visit frequency typically rises with your site's popularity and update cadence.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
XY-Archive-Compliance
Example user-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; XY-Archive-Compliance-Crawler; +https://archive.xyplanningnetwork.com/)robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control XY-Archive-Compliance:
Allow full access
User-agent: XY-Archive-Compliance
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: XY-Archive-Compliance
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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