Scrapy
Zyte (open-source framework) · Model training · robots.txt token scrapy
2% of 30,177 measured domains disallow scrapy in robots.txt at the site root. Separately, and independently of robots.txt, 17.4% of 30,185 reachable domains refuse an AI crawler user agent at the network edge on two consecutive probes from different locations - a refusal the site's own robots.txt does not declare and its owner often has not chosen.
Measured 2026-10-06 by direct request to every domain in the corpus. Method: how this is measured. Reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.
Cite as: Crawl Census, "Scrapy blocking rate", measured 2026-10-06. https://crawlcensus.com/bot/scrapy
What it is definition
Generic scraping framework often used to build AI training datasets; obeys robots.txt only when ROBOTSTXT_OBEY is on.
Scrapy is operated by Zyte (open-source framework) and classified here as model training. These agents collect text and images that may end up in a training corpus. Disallowing one withholds new content from the next model. It does not withdraw anything collected before the disallow, and it does not remove the site from any answer engine.
Disallowing scrapy withholds content crawled from that point on from Zyte (open-source framework)'s training data. It does not withdraw pages collected in earlier crawls, it does not reach copies already sitting in third-party datasets, and it does not remove the site from any answer surface.
- robots.txt token
- scrapy
- Operator
- Zyte (open-source framework)
- Purpose
- Model training
- Honors robots.txt
- yes
- Documentation
- https://scrapy.org/
Identity on the wire exact string
Scrapy/2.17.0 (+https://scrapy.org)curl -A 'Scrapy/2.17.0 (+https://scrapy.org)' https://example.com/Replace the host with your own. A 403, a challenge page or an empty body means the edge is blocking the agent whatever robots.txt says.
How to allow it, how to block it robots.txt
User-agent: scrapy
Allow: /Absent any rule, the agent is already allowed, so this group only matters when your * group disallows something. Naming the agent replaces the * group for it entirely, so repeat here every disallow you still want to apply to it.
User-agent: scrapy
Disallow: /Disallowing scrapy withholds content crawled from that point on from Zyte (open-source framework)'s training data. It does not withdraw pages collected in earlier crawls, it does not reach copies already sitting in third-party datasets, and it does not remove the site from any answer surface.
Sites that block it 60 shown
See every measured domain that blocks Scrapy
This list is served from a cache rebuilt just now. It is discarded the moment a rescan records a policy change for this agent, so a site that has just changed its robots.txt will drop off it within one scan rather than waiting for the cache to expire.
Compare Zyte (open-source framework)
Zyte (open-source framework) runs no other agent in this registry.
Common questions answered
Does blocking Scrapy remove me from datasets built with Scrapy?
No, not by itself. Scrapy collects content for training, not for the index that answers questions. Zyte (open-source framework) operates no separate answer crawler in this registry, so there is no answer surface to lose here. Content collected before the disallow is not withdrawn.
How do I verify Scrapy requests are genuine?
Scrapy is an open-source framework, not a service. Anyone can run it and set any user-agent string, so traffic identifying as Scrapy cannot be attributed to a particular operator at all. Treat it as unattributed automated traffic and rate-limit by address.
Check your own site free
See whether your robots.txt admits Scrapy today, and whether your edge agrees with it.