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Bot from Hive (ImageSift)

ImagesiftBot

In short

ImagesiftBot is Hive (ImageSift)'s bot, filed under Other. The token to write in robots.txt is ImagesiftBot. The operator publishes nothing a site can check. 9.5 percent of 5,938 top-10,000 sites with a parsed robots.txt disallow it at the root (crawl of 2026-11-04). Scrapes public images for web intelligence products. On robots.txt, standard directives that target ImagesiftBot are respected.

Operator
Hive (ImageSift) Vendor profile: Hive
Purpose
Other All other rows. Link previews, ad checks, dataset crawls, SEO tools and legacy tokens that fit none of the five purposes.
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ImagesiftBot; +imagesift.com)
robots.txt token
ImagesiftBot Matched case-insensitively (RFC 9309). The token and the user-agent string are different things.
Respects robots.txt

Yes, per operator

ImageSift: standard directives that target ImagesiftBot are respected. Source, read 2026-11-04.

Verification

Nothing published

The operator publishes no list, reverse DNS pattern or key directory a site owner can check. Documentation, read 2026-11-04.

IP ranges
Not published.
Rate behaviour
Supports Crawl-delay as the minimum seconds between request starts.
Block rate

9.5% of 5,938 top-10,000 sites with a parsed robots.txt disallow ImagesiftBot at the root (563 sites). 5.5% name it; 3.9% refuse it only through a * group. Rank 21 of 31 tokens measured.

Across all 8,624 parsed robots.txt files in the crawl: 6.9% (4.0% named). Crawl of 2026-11-04; report.

Documentation
imagesift.com, read 2026-11-04.

Note. Scrapes public images for web intelligence products. If no rule targets ImagesiftBot it falls back to rules for other crawlers, per the page.

Allow and refuse lines

To allow ImagesiftBot

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Allow: /

To refuse ImagesiftBot

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

Refusing or allowing in robots.txt states a preference. Enforcement of a refusal belongs in your WAF; see how to verify the identity above.

Hive (ImageSift) in the Verification Ledger

User agent string and robots.txt behaviour only. All operators.

IP lists
publishes nothing
Reverse DNS
publishes nothing
Key directory
publishes nothing
Cloudflare
not checked
Visa TAP registry
no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04)
Mastercard Agent Pay
no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04)

Sources

Last reviewed 2026-11-04