What ImagesiftBot does
ImagesiftBot is a web crawler operated by Hive that scrapes the internet for publicly available images in support of Hive's web intelligence products. When it visits a page it saves the host URL, the text on the page, the images themselves, and the alt text associated with those images. It identifies itself with the user agent string "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ImagesiftBot; +imagesift.com)". Site owners can contact support@imagesift.com with questions about the bot or to opt out of being crawled.
How to control ImagesiftBot
Target ImagesiftBot in your robots.txt with the ImagesiftBot token. Rules apply per bot, so you can allow this one while blocking others, or the reverse.
Allow ImagesiftBot
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Allow: /Block ImagesiftBot
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /If robots.txt contains no rules addressed to ImagesiftBot the crawler falls back to your Googlebot directives, and it supports Crawl-delay, interpreted as the minimum number of seconds between the start of consecutive requests to a domain.
How to identify ImagesiftBot
Temso identifies ImagesiftBottraffic by matching the request's User-Agent header against this pattern. User-agent strings can be spoofed, so treat a match as an indication, not proof.
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What is ImagesiftBot?
ImagesiftBot is Hive's web crawler, which scrapes publicly available images from the internet for Hive's web intelligence products. It stores host URLs, page text, images, and image alt text, and identifies itself as "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ImagesiftBot; +imagesift.com)".
How do I block ImagesiftBot?
Add a robots.txt group with "User-agent: ImagesiftBot" followed by "Disallow: /" (or the paths you want excluded). If no ImagesiftBot-specific rules exist, the bot follows your Googlebot directives instead, and it honors Crawl-delay as a minimum interval in seconds between requests; you can also email support@imagesift.com to opt out of being crawled.
About AI Training Crawlers
Crawlers that collect content to train foundation models. Data gathered today shapes what future model versions know about your brand.
Blocking these doesn't affect live citations, but it limits what future models learn about you from your own site, leaving third-party sources to fill the gap.
