Bot signals — Search & SEO crawler

Arquivo.pt Web Crawler IP addresses

Arquivo.pt published web archiving crawler ranges.

risk.is_crawler Ranges Reviewed

Check an IP

Is this IP really Arquivo.pt Web Crawler?

Checks the address against what Arquivo.pt Web Crawler publishes, the same evidence behind risk.is_crawler.

01 — Verification

How IPAPI.GR verifies Arquivo.pt Web Crawler.

Only from what Arquivo.pt Web Crawler publishes about itself. No third-party blocklists, no behavioural guesses. Live address counts change with every publication, so check the official file for the current list.

Arquivo.pt Web Crawler

risk.is_crawler
Method
Ranges Published IP ranges
Format
JSON range file
Refresh
Every hour. If a refresh fails, entries expire after 24 hours instead of being trusted forever.

02 — In the response

What a match looks like.

A lookup of a Arquivo.pt Web Crawler address sets risk.is_crawler. The flags come with geolocation and network data in the same response, for Pro API keys.

The response says which kind of bot an address belongs to, not which operator. Pair it with the user agent: a request that claims to be Arquivo.pt Web Crawler but doesn't match is unverified.

GET /api/lookup/{ip}?key=PRO_KEY
{
  // … location and network fields …
  "risk": {
    "is_ai": false,
    "is_crawler": true,
    "is_scanner": false
  }
}

03 — Configuration

Allow, block or verify it yourself.

nginx + jq
# 1. Build a geo include from the official file (cron, e.g. hourly).
#    Keep the old file if the download fails or comes back empty.
curl -fsS https://arquivo.pt/crawlerips.json \
  | jq -r '.prefixes[] | (.ipv4Prefix // .ipv6Prefix // empty) | "\(.) 1;"' \
  > /etc/nginx/arquivo-ranges.conf.new && [ -s /etc/nginx/arquivo-ranges.conf.new ] && mv /etc/nginx/arquivo-ranges.conf.new /etc/nginx/arquivo-ranges.conf \
  && nginx -t -q && nginx -s reload

# 2. In the http block: 1 when the client IP is in the published ranges.
geo $arquivo_ip {
    default 0;
    include /etc/nginx/arquivo-ranges.conf;
}
Built from arquivo.pt/crawlerips.json, a JSON file with a prefixes array.

04 — Questions

About Arquivo.pt Web Crawler.

Where does Arquivo.pt Web Crawler publish its IP addresses?

Arquivo.pt Web Crawler publishes its addresses at https://arquivo.pt/crawlerips.json. IPAPI.GR reads that publication directly, not a third-party copy.

How often is the Arquivo.pt Web Crawler list refreshed?

IPAPI.GR re-fetches it every hour. If a refresh fails, the previous entries expire after at most 24 hours instead of being trusted forever.

Which risk flag does Arquivo.pt Web Crawler set?

A matching address sets risk.is_crawler in the lookup response. The risk flags are returned for Pro API keys.

Verify Arquivo.pt Web Crawler on every request.

Pro: 40,000,000 requests a day with is_ai, is_crawler and is_scanner in every lookup.