AI search crawlers
ImagesiftBot is a bot operated by ImageSift that indexes pages so an AI answer engine can cite them. Once images and text are downloaded from a webpage, ImageSift analyzes this data from the page and stores the information in an index. It is documented as honouring robots.txt, but no IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine.
Request says
"ImagesiftBot"
Checked against
Nothing published
Live check
No operator check exists for ImagesiftBot. This still shows what the address really is.
Reference
| User agent | ImagesiftBotToken only: match on the substring. |
|---|---|
| Operator | ImageSift |
| Purpose | ImageSiftBot is a web crawler that scrapes the internet for publicly available images to support their suite of web intelligence products |
| Respects robots.txt | Honourssource |
| Verification method | Claim onlyNone published, user agent only Crawls for images rather than text, so a text-only robots.txt review can miss it entirely. |
| Crawl pattern | Not published |
| Robots.txt tokens | ImagesiftBot |
| Operator documentation | https://imagesift.com/about |
Once images and text are downloaded from a webpage, ImageSift analyzes this data from the page and stores the information in an index. Their web intelligence products use this index to enable search and retrieval of similar images.
robots.txt
Paste one at the root of your domain. Rules are per token.
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Allow: /User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /searchEdit the Disallow paths to match your own URLs.
Blocking ImagesiftBot takes the site out of the index behind its answers, so it stops being cited there. If referral traffic from AI answers matters to you, block the training crawler instead and leave this one alone.
Build a file for every crawlerFAQ
ImagesiftBot is a bot operated by ImageSift that indexes pages so an AI answer engine can cite them. Once images and text are downloaded from a webpage, ImageSift analyzes this data from the page and stores the information in an index. It is documented as honouring robots.txt, but no IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine.
Yes. The operator documents that ImagesiftBot reads robots.txt and follows Disallow rules for its own token. Rules take effect on the next fetch of the file, which can be hours or days after you publish them.
You cannot, at least not from the request itself. Crawls for images rather than text, so a text-only robots.txt review can miss it entirely. Compare the source IP against hosting and datacenter ranges instead, and rate limit anything that behaves like a crawler.
Add the ImagesiftBot token to robots.txt with Disallow: /. If the crawler ignores robots.txt, match the user agent at your CDN or reverse proxy and return 403 there instead.
Blocking ImagesiftBot takes the site out of the index behind its answers, so it stops being cited there. If referral traffic from AI answers matters to you, block the training crawler instead and leave this one alone.