What is Scope3?
The scope3 crawler indexes publicly available web content and paywalled media to assess content classification and brand safety. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Scope3 |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 9, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Scope3 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.
Scope3's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Scope3/2.0 (scope3.com) XTPT/1.0 |
How To Block Scope3 With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Scope3 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: Scope3 # https://knownagents.com/agents/scope3
Disallow: /Scope3 Global Insights
As of July 9, 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
1% of top websites block Scope3 in their robots.txt files.
Overall Intelligence Gatherer Traffic
4.6% of all web traffic came from intelligence gatherers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Scope3?
Decide who benefits. Scope3 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, 1% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for Scope3.
Does Scope3 Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. Scope3 is expected to honor 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 Scope3 actually honors it.
Does Scope3 Access Private Content?
Public business information is the target. Pricing pages, product listings, and announcements are what its clients pay for. Scope3 has no special access, but assume everything you publish openly gets collected.
Why Is Scope3 Visiting My Website?
A client of Scope3 is monitoring your market, your brand, or you specifically. Expect Scope3's visits to concentrate on pages with business value, like pricing and product pages.
How Can I Tell if Scope3 Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Scope3 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 "Scope3". Look for repeated visits to pricing, product, and news pages. Keep in mind that Scope3 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.