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description: "ImagesiftBot from Hive (ImageSift): exact user-agent string, robots.txt token ImagesiftBot, other purpose and how to verify it. 9.5% of top sites block it."
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# ImagesiftBot: user agent, token, block rate | Agent Ready Crawlers

> ImagesiftBot from Hive (ImageSift): exact user-agent string, robots.txt token ImagesiftBot, other purpose and how to verify it. 9.5% of top sites block it.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/imagesiftbot
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

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](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/hive-imagesift/)

Purpose

Other [All other rows](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/purpose/other/). 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](https://imagesift.com/about), read 2026-11-04.

Verification

Nothing published

The operator publishes no list, reverse DNS pattern or key directory a site owner can check. [Documentation](https://imagesift.com/about), 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](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/block-rates/).

Documentation

[imagesift.com](https://imagesift.com/about), 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](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/verification/).

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

-   [imagesift.com: about](https://imagesift.com/about) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04