{
  "dataset": "crawlers",
  "record": {
    "id": "imagesiftbot",
    "name": "ImagesiftBot",
    "operator": "ImageSift (Hive)",
    "purpose": "data-aggregation",
    "ua_substring": "ImagesiftBot",
    "robots_token": "ImagesiftBot",
    "respects_robots": true,
    "verify": "verify by user-agent + edge controls; ImageSift documents robots.txt adherence (incl. crawl-delay) and Googlebot-directive fallback. No operator-published IP-range file confirmed.",
    "notes": "Crawls the web for publicly available images, analyzing and indexing them to power ImageSift's web-intelligence products. Operated by ImageSift (a Hive product). Registered as a 'data-provider' (Agents Welcome taxonomy extension).",
    "canonical_name": "ImagesiftBot",
    "user_agent_token": "ImagesiftBot",
    "ua_full": {
      "value": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ImagesiftBot; +imagesift.com)",
      "source": "https://imagesift.com/about",
      "last_verified": "2026-06-15"
    },
    "bot_type": "data-provider",
    "bot_type_extension": "data-provider (Agents Welcome registry extension beyond the cited 6-type set)",
    "opt_out_mechanism": "robots.txt disallow (User-agent: ImagesiftBot); falls back to Googlebot directives if no ImagesiftBot-specific rule exists",
    "published_ip_range_url": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://imagesift.com/about",
      "note": "no authoritative ImageSift-published IP-range JSON confirmed at primary source"
    },
    "asn": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://imagesift.com/about"
    },
    "reverse_dns_suffix": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://imagesift.com/about"
    },
    "supports_web_bot_auth": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://imagesift.com/about"
    },
    "signature_agent_domain": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://imagesift.com/about"
    },
    "jwks_url": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://imagesift.com/about"
    },
    "verification_methods": [
      "user-agent-match"
    ],
    "crawl_traffic_share": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots"
    },
    "targeted_content_type": "images, HTML, text",
    "documentation_url": "https://imagesift.com/about",
    "first_seen_date": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://imagesift.com/about"
    },
    "last_verified_date": "2026-06-15",
    "block_vs_allow_recommendation": "conditional — image-focused data-provider crawler; allow if you want your images in ImageSift's index, block via robots.txt to opt out. No direct referral.",
    "citation_referral_value": "low (image data aggregation; no direct citation or referral)",
    "cloudflare_verified_category": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory/imagesiftbot"
    },
    "status": "active",
    "triples": [
      [
        "ImagesiftBot",
        "operated_by",
        "ImageSift"
      ],
      [
        "ImagesiftBot",
        "has_bot_type",
        "data-provider"
      ],
      [
        "ImagesiftBot",
        "verified_via",
        "user-agent-match"
      ]
    ],
    "attribute_sources": [
      {
        "claims": [
          "ua_full",
          "user_agent_token",
          "robots_token",
          "respects_robots",
          "documentation_url",
          "opt_out_mechanism"
        ],
        "source": "https://imagesift.com/about",
        "last_verified": "2026-06-15"
      },
      {
        "claims": [
          "operator"
        ],
        "source": "https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/robots.json",
        "last_verified": "2026-06-15"
      }
    ]
  }
}