img2dataset
SafeUser-agent: img2dataset
Category: AI & LLM Bots
SEO impact if blocked: 2/10
Open Source Community
1 crawler operated by Open Source Community
Who Open Source Community is, for site owners
Open Source Community operates 1 crawler in our directory, filed under AI & LLM Bots. Its crawl behaviour is rated safe.
Blocking Open Source Community carries an SEO impact score of 2/10. Blocking impact is rated: Low - No SEO ranking impact.
Our recommendation for Open Source Community: Generally safe to allow; provides legitimate crawling value.
Open Source Community at a glance
| Operator | Open Source Community |
|---|---|
| Crawler in directory | 1 |
| Categories | AI & LLM Bots |
| SEO impact if blocked | 2/10 |
| Crawl behaviour | 1 rated safe |
| Official crawler docs | Open Source Community crawler documentation |
Crawler operated by Open Source Community
What Open Source Community's crawlers are for
Open Source Community runs 1 crawler in our database. Grouped by the job each one does:
- a training crawler:
img2dataset
The highest-priority token is Tier 2. That puts Open Source Community among the operators whose crawlers have a direct effect on whether AI answers or search results can include your pages.
How site owners treat Open Source Community
None of Open Source Community's tokens were among the names tracked in our robots.txt study of the Tranco top 10,000, which usually means few large sites write rules for them yet. Your own logs are the best evidence of how often they visit.
Writing one policy for Open Source Community
A robots.txt file cannot say "Open Source Community"; it can only name Open Source Community's tokens, one group at a time. With a single token, one group is the whole policy.
# One token controls everything Open Source Community fetches through it
User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /private/
Allow: /- Decide per job, not per company. Training, search and user-triggered fetching have different trade-offs, even from the same operator.
- Name every token you mean. A token you leave out follows
User-agent: *. - Repeat shared rules. A named group ignores the
*group, so copy anyDisallowlines you still want it to obey. - Verify from outside. Run the robots.txt AI crawler test after any change to see the result for each Open Source Community token, including firewall refusals.
Test yourself: does User-agent: Open Source Community block all of Open Source Community's crawlers?
No. robots.txt matches crawler tokens, not company names. Use the token img2dataset.
Test yourself: if you block one Open Source Community token, are the others blocked too?
No. Each token is read separately. Blocking one leaves the rest following whatever group applies to them.
Each Open Source Community crawler, explained
A one-paragraph brief for every Open Source Community token in our database, covering what it does, how it treats robots.txt and how often large sites write rules for it:
- img2dataset (
img2dataset, Tier 2): a training crawler that collects pages to train AI models. Rated safe. img2dataset's operator does not clearly document how it treats robots.txt. Write the img2dataset rule anyway, then confirm in your logs that its requests stop. Not tracked in our robots.txt study.
Common mistakes with Open Source Community's crawlers
The errors we see most often with Open Source Community's crawlers in the files and firewalls we test:
- Assuming that blocking Open Source Community's crawlers removes you from AI answers. It is a training crawler; AI answers are fed by retrieval and user-triggered crawlers with different tokens.
- Blocking Open Source Community's crawlers with a broad
User-agent: *rule that also catches search engines. Nameimg2datasetin its own group instead. - Expecting a Open Source Community's crawlers block to remove content already collected. robots.txt only affects future visits.
All three hide inside a file that looks correct, so check Open Source Community's crawlers from outside after every change.
What our own data shows about Open Source Community
Everything below comes from the AI Crawler Check bot database and our two most recent robots.txt scans of the Tranco top 10,000, not from Open Source Community's marketing. Open Source Community has one token in our database, so the whole picture fits in one place.
img2dataset in our records
We first recorded img2dataset on March 17, 2026. Open Source Community documents it on github.com, and we recheck that page before each release. No file in our top-10,000 scans names img2dataset, so any rule you write for it puts you ahead of almost every large site.
Among the 104 AI and LLM crawlers in our database, img2dataset sits 51th by priority (Tier 2), level with AddSearchBot, AI2Bot, AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval, aiHitBot. 81 of the 104 share its safe rating. Other operators with a crawler that collects pages to train AI models: ClaudeBot (Anthropic, Tier 1), Google-Extended (Google, Tier 1), GPTBot (OpenAI, Tier 1), Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta, Tier 1), AI2Bot (Allen Institute for AI, Tier 2). A policy for img2dataset is usually a policy for these too.
A decision record for img2dataset
Teams that review crawlers once a quarter keep one short entry per token, so anyone can see why a rule exists and when it was last checked. Filled in from our data, the img2dataset entry reads:
- Operator and job: Open Source Community; it collects pages to train AI models.
- Priority and behaviour: Tier 2, rated safe, blocking impact low.
- Suggested starting point: Your licensing call: Disallow to refuse training, Allow to permit it.
- Enforcement: img2dataset's operator does not clearly document how it treats robots.txt. Write the img2dataset rule anyway, then confirm in your logs that its requests stop.
User-agent: img2dataset
Allow: /Paste the line into the validator with one of your own URLs before it goes live. Revisit the img2dataset entry whenever Open Source Community announces a change, because a Tier 2 crawler affects visibility directly.
Checking img2dataset on your own site
Because Open Source Community runs only img2dataset in our records, one check covers the whole operator. Search your access logs for the string img2dataset over the last 30 days, note how many requests it made and which paths it asked for, then compare that with what your robots.txt allows. Match the requests against what Open Source Community publishes about the crawler, since that page is the only authority on its behaviour. A Tier 2 crawler rated safe is worth confirming every month, and our log checker does the counting for you.
How top sites treat Open Source Community's crawlers
From our robots.txt study of the Tranco top 10,000 (5,583 valid files, fetched October 20, 2026):
None of the tokens for Open Source Community's crawlers is tracked by name in our study. For scale, 20.1% of top-site files block at least one AI training crawler and 4.3% refuse every unnamed crawler with User-agent: * and Disallow: /, which would catch Open Source Community's crawlers too.
More questions about Open Source Community
- Will blocking Open Source Community affect my Google rankings?
- Only if one of its tokens is a Google search crawler. None of Open Source Community's tokens are Googlebot, so classic Google rankings are unaffected.
- How quickly does a robots.txt change take effect for Open Source Community?
- Crawlers cache robots.txt, commonly for up to a day. Expect a change to apply within about 24 hours, and confirm it in your logs.
- Can I allow Open Source Community on some sections and block it on others?
- Yes. Inside the group for
img2dataset, addDisallowlines for the paths to keep private andAllowlines for exceptions. The longest matching rule wins. - Does blocking Open Source Community delete content it already collected?
- No. robots.txt only controls future visits. For content already collected, check whether Open Source Community offers a removal or opt-out process.
- Is a firewall block better than robots.txt for Open Source Community?
- A firewall enforces the decision, while robots.txt asks politely. Many operators recommend robots.txt because blocking their IPs can stop them reading your rules at all. Use robots.txt first, and add a firewall rule only if requests continue.
A five-minute Open Source Community review
- Confirm the token. Compare the user-agent in your logs with the tokens listed on this page. A close spelling is not the same crawler.
- Decide the outcome per crawler. Use the briefs above to choose allow, limit or block for each token.
- Write the group. Add or edit one
User-agentgroup per decision and repeat any shared rules inside it. - Publish and wait. Allow about a day for crawlers to fetch the new file.
- Confirm the result. Check your logs, then run the live AI crawler test to see the outcome from outside, including any firewall layer.
How to block or allow Open Source Community in robots.txt
This rule covers the single crawler Open Source Community operates. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain.
Block Open Source Community completely
User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /
Allow Open Source Community explicitly
User-agent: img2dataset
Allow: /
These Open Source Community rules ask; they do not enforce. If a Open Source Community token ignores them, block it at the server or CDN. Paths are case-sensitive, and each rule matches the token, not the full user-agent string.
Frequently asked questions about Open Source Community
What crawler does Open Source Community run?
Open Source Community operates 1 crawler in our directory: img2dataset (user-agent img2dataset).
Should I block Open Source Community?
Generally safe to allow; provides legitimate crawling value. The SEO impact score for blocking is 2/10, where 10 means blocking costs you the most visibility.
How do I block Open Source Community in robots.txt?
Add the following to robots.txt at your domain root: User-agent: img2dataset then Disallow: /.
Does blocking Open Source Community hurt my search rankings?
Blocking impact is rated: Low - No SEO ranking impact. Google's own ranking crawler is Googlebot, which this operator does not run, so blocking Open Source Community does not by itself remove you from Google's index. What it can change is whether AI assistants and analytics tools can read your pages.