IAS Wombles

Verifiable

The second crawler Integral Ad Science documents alongside IAS Crawler. IAS says Wombles captures additional information used to refine its invalid traffic models, as distinct from the content-rating work IAS Crawler does. Both robots are covered by the public IP list IAS publishes.

Operated by Integral Ad Science · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

regexias_wombles
observedIAS Wombles (ias_wombles; http://integralads.com/site-indexing-policy/)

How to verify

Documented static ranges: 3.217.168.199, 3.226.51.67, 18.214.43.70, 23.21.212.31, 34.195.212.30, 35.175.92.196, 92.42.105.32, 92.42.105.33, 92.42.105.34, 92.42.105.35, 92.42.105.36, 92.42.105.37, 92.42.105.38, 92.42.105.39, 92.204.170.15, 92.204.190.235, 92.204.248.55, 151.106.17.251, 162.211.125.4, 162.211.125.5, 162.211.125.6, 162.211.125.7, 162.211.125.8, 173.224.127.64, 173.224.127.65, 173.224.127.66, 173.224.127.67, 173.224.127.68, 173.224.127.69, 173.224.127.70, 173.224.127.71

IP ranges (31)

Refreshed daily from the operator's feed. Also available as /data/ips/integralads-wombles.ips and /data/bots/integralads-wombles.json.

151.106.17.251
162.211.125.4
162.211.125.5
162.211.125.6
162.211.125.7
162.211.125.8
173.224.127.64
173.224.127.65
173.224.127.66
173.224.127.67
173.224.127.68
173.224.127.69
173.224.127.70
173.224.127.71
18.214.43.70
23.21.212.31
3.217.168.199
3.226.51.67
34.195.212.30
35.175.92.196
92.204.170.15
92.204.190.235
92.204.248.55
92.42.105.32
92.42.105.33
92.42.105.34
92.42.105.35
92.42.105.36
92.42.105.37
92.42.105.38
92.42.105.39

Good Bot Practices scorecard

Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
Verifiable
Verifiable
Respects robots.txt
Honors robots.txt (token: ias_wombles)
Behaves
Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset
Reachable operator
Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.