Training · The Hive
ImagesiftBot
Collects images for the ImageSift reverse-image search index, operated by Hive, a company that also sells AI models. Documents honouring robots.txt.
- Operator
- The Hive
- Purpose
- Training crawlers
- Feeds
- ImageSift
- robots.txt token
ImagesiftBot- Honours robots.txt
- Honours robots.txt
- Documentation
- imagesift.com
What it looks like in server logs
A representative user-agent string. Version numbers change; the ImagesiftBot token does not. Paste your own log line into the user-agent checker to confirm a match.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ImagesiftBot/1.0; +https://imagesift.com/about)How to block ImagesiftBot
Add this to the robots.txt at the root of your domain. Robots.txt is advisory: it works only on crawlers that choose to read it. This one is honours robots.txt according to its operator.
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /
To block every training crawler at once, or to block training while keeping AI search citations, use the robots.txt generator.
How to allow ImagesiftBot while blocking others
A more specific User-agent group wins over a wildcard. Place this above any User-agent: * block that disallows paths, and ImagesiftBot keeps full access.
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Allow: /
How to verify a genuine hit
The user-agent string is self-asserted: anyone can send it from a laptop, and scrapers routinely impersonate well-known crawlers to slip past filters aimed at unknown ones.
No published ranges.
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