What is factset_spyderbot?
factset_spyderbot is a web crawler operated by FactSet that gathers financial and business data from websites to support their comprehensive financial data platform and analytics services. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | FactSet |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 12, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
factset_spyderbot visits with a shopping list. Expect focused, repeated requests to the pages its clients monitor, like pricing, product listings, and announcements, on schedules ranging from hourly to weekly. Sites outside a client's watchlist may never see it at all.
factset_spyderbot's User Agent
| User Agent | Factset_spyderbot |
How To Block factset_spyderbot With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block factset_spyderbot from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all intelligence gatherers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: factset_spyderbot # https://knownagents.com/agents/factset-spyderbot
Disallow: /Global Insights for factset_spyderbot
As of July 12, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
2% of top websites block factset_spyderbot in their robots.txt files.
Overall Intelligence Gatherer Traffic
4.3% of all web traffic came from intelligence gatherers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block factset_spyderbot?
Decide who benefits. factset_spyderbot collects pricing, product, and brand data for its operator's clients, and those clients can include your competitors. Allow it if visibility in market research matters to you. Block it if you would rather not hand competitors structured data about your business. For comparison, 2% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for factset_spyderbot.
Does factset_spyderbot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. factset_spyderbot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms factset_spyderbot actually follows it.
Does factset_spyderbot Access Private Content?
Public business information is the target. Pricing pages, product listings, and announcements are what its clients pay for. factset_spyderbot has no special access, but assume everything you publish openly gets collected.
Why Is factset_spyderbot Visiting My Website?
A client of FactSet is monitoring your market, your brand, or you specifically. Expect factset_spyderbot's visits to concentrate on pages with business value, like pricing and product pages.
How Can I Tell if factset_spyderbot Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks factset_spyderbot visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "factset_spyderbot". Look for repeated visits to pricing, product, and news pages. Keep in mind that factset_spyderbot doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.