Hive · Indexing
ImagesiftBot
Identify ImagesiftBot by its user agent. Check request identity, review robots.txt controls and track visits in Aiola Analytics.
Key facts
ImagesiftBotWhat ImagesiftBot is
ImagesiftBot collects public images and page text into an index for similar-image search and retrieval. It honors ImagesiftBot robots.txt rules and falls back to Googlebot directives when no ImagesiftBot group exists.
In Aiola's taxonomy, Indexing means crawled for ai or search indexing.
ImagesiftBot user agent
Look for the match token inside the complete HTTP User-Agent header. Tokens can be spoofed, so use the network checks below for authentication.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ImagesiftBot; +imagesift.com)ImagesiftBotOfficial IP ranges
Hive has not published official IP ranges that Aiola successfully fetched for ImagesiftBot. Aiola does not list cloud-provider ranges or community guesses as if they authenticated this crawler.
Verify a ImagesiftBot request
No IP authentication method is documented in this record for ImagesiftBot. Its user-agent token is a claim, not proof of identity.
Use the exact header token for classification and apply your own access controls. Check the vendor documentation for any newly published IP, token or header verification method.
Control ImagesiftBot with robots.txt
Hive documents crawler controls for this bot family. Robots.txt can direct cooperative crawling, but it cannot prove that a request is authentic.
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Allow: /User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /Aiola Analytics
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