ias-or and ias-va

[Peter_S]

Hi,

ias-or/3.3 (former https://www.admantx.com + https://integralads.com/about-ias/)

ias-va/3.3 (former https://www.admantx.com + https://integralads.com/about-ias/)

These two robots, seem to be legit and somewhat important when it comes to advertising.

Does anyone know how to authenticate the request? I can't find a page, at integralads.com about their crawler, and how to identify it (IP / IP Range).

Requests come from different place such as Go Daddy server, or AWS, or AES.

What bothers me is that, without dedicated IP, it means that anyone running a server at Go Daddy, AWS or AES can spoof the UA and scrap whatever they want .

Thank you.

[Peter_S]

They also use Robot ID ias-au, ias-jp , it doesn't look like country ID.

[lucy24]

it doesn't look like country ID

You mean, there's no relationship between the au and jp and so on, and the originating IP? When I saw or and va in the first post, I immediately thought Oregon and Virginia--but is there anything state-specific about advertising? The alternative is even less plausible, since va could be Vatican, but or doesn't seem to be anything.

[tangor]

Are you running any video on your site? That's what this bot is looking for.

(I don't have videos, so this gets a juicy 403 in response)

(Also personally have no use for IAS, which is Euro centric)