ImagesiftBot
AI search indexerA crawler operated by Imagesift (Hive) that collects images for a similar-image search index. Imagesift documents that it honors robots.txt, including Crawl-delay, and falls back to Googlebot rules. Use of the data for AI training is not stated.
| Operator | Imagesift by Hive |
| Type | AI search indexer |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes (documented) |
| Documentation | Official operator documentation |
ImagesiftBot user-agent string
This is how ImagesiftBot identifies itself in your server logs:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ImagesiftBot; +imagesift.com)How to block ImagesiftBot in robots.txt
Add this to the robots.txt file at the root of your site:
Block ImagesiftBot
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /Explicitly allow ImagesiftBot
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Allow: /What blocking changes: Your images stay out of the Imagesift search index.
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