Bot Information for Internet Archive Verified

The Internet Archive bot, also known as archive.org_bot, is the web crawler for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It systematically crawls and preserves publicly accessible web pages for historical record.

AccessIndicates who drives the bot's activity. Bots with "direct" access are controlled directly by their operator, while bots with "intermediary" access can be controlled by end users.
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; special_archiver/3.1.1 +http://www.archive.org/details/archive.org_bot)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; archive.org_bot +http://www.archive.org/details/archive.org_bot)
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User-Agent: archive.org_bot
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