VlickBot

How to recognise it

Requests carry this user agent:

VlickBot/1.0 (+https://vlick.ai/bot)

The page and your robots.txt are read from Cloudflare’s network. The pictures and videos are downloaded from Vlick’s own servers in the United States. We don’t publish fixed IP addresses, so match the user agent.

When it visits

Only when a customer pastes a link to a public web page into Make a video › Remix social posts in Vlick and confirms they have the rights or permission to use it. Then VlickBot:

1. reads /robots.txt on your site and stops if it may not fetch that page;
2. reads that one page;
3. downloads the pictures and videos the page itself publishes (for example its og:image and og:video, and the images and videos in the page), up to 20 files per page.

It doesn’t follow links, crawl other pages, sign in, fill in forms or get past paywalls. It never downloads from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok or YouTube pages of other people. A link pasted again is fetched again; nothing runs on a schedule.

What happens to the files

The files go into that customer’s private Library to be used in their videos, with a credit line naming your site. Vlick doesn’t use them to train AI models and doesn’t show them to other customers. The customer is responsible for having the rights to use them (Terms, section 15).

How to opt out

Add this to your site’s robots.txt to keep VlickBot off the whole site:

User-agent: VlickBot
Disallow: /

Vlick-Bot and Vlick work as the agent name too. To block only some pages, list them, for example Disallow: /gallery/. The longest matching rule wins, as Google does it. Without a VlickBot group, VlickBot follows your rules for User-agent: *. A change counts from the next link a customer pastes.

Remove something already fetched

Write to hello@vlick.ai with the page address. For copyright complaints, see our Copyright Policy.