Hive · Other AI bots
ImagesiftBot
Crawler of ImageSift by Hive, which collects publicly available images with their page text and alt text to build an index for reverse image search and other web intelligence products.
- robots.txt name
ImagesiftBot- User agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ImagesiftBot; +imagesift.com)- Category
- Other AI bots: Other automated agents related to AI services.
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://imagesift.com/about
Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.
Block or allow it in robots.txt
Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere except one folder:
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /private/Is it really this bot?
Anyone can copy a user agent, and Hive does not publish IP ranges for this bot. A reverse DNS lookup of the IP address may help; check the official documentation.
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