# ImagesiftBot

> ImageSift (Hive) · data-aggregation

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- **name:** ImagesiftBot
- **operator:** ImageSift (Hive)
- **purpose:** data-aggregation
- **ua_substring:** ImagesiftBot
- **robots_token:** ImagesiftBot
- **respects_robots:** yes
- **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:** Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ImagesiftBot; +imagesift.com) (source: https://imagesift.com/about)
- **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:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **asn:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **reverse_dns_suffix:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **supports_web_bot_auth:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **signature_agent_domain:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **jwks_url:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **verification_methods:** user-agent-match
- **crawl_traffic_share:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **targeted_content_type:** images, HTML, text
- **documentation_url:** https://imagesift.com/about
- **first_seen_date:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **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:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **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"}