special_archiver is a web crawler operated by Internet Archive as part of their Archive-It service, which creates and preserves collections of web content. This bot visits websites to capture and archive web pages for long-term preservation and historical research purposes.

At a glance

Operator: Internet Archive
Type: Archiver

How Centinel checks it

User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.

special_archiver publishes nothing Centinel can check a source against, so a match reports the name and leaves the source unconfirmed. The match tokens, verification domains, and address feeds are not published here.

Allowing or blocking it

The crawler object in the /validate response sets access_allowed to true only for a verified source that your tenant allowlists. A policy rule can allow or block this crawler by its category, Archiver.

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