Innologica
Innologica is a single-page fetcher operated by Innologica. It fetches one page (or a small set) when triggered by a user action, typically a link being shared on social media, a messaging app, or an RSS reader.
Volume tracks shares and clicks rather than crawl schedules. A trending link can produce a sudden spike, but Innologica will not crawl the rest of your site.
Blocking it usually means the link previews on the corresponding platform stop showing your title, image, and description.
See Innologica on your own site
Match the User-Agent header on incoming requests against the pattern below.
regex
For higher confidence, also verify the source IP against the operator's published ranges. UA strings can be spoofed; IP ownership is harder to fake.
Renders JavaScript
No
IP verification
User-Agent only
Crawl frequency
Per user action
Honors robots.txt
Yes
Honors Crawl-delay
Varies
Innologica runs 2 bots in total. Each one is a separate user-agent so you can allow or block them independently.
Link Unfurler
2- InnologicaYou are here
- inoreader.com
Should I let Innologica through?
In most cases, yes. Fetchers power link previews and feed readers. Blocking breaks the user experience on social and messaging platforms. If volume gets noisy, rate-limit it before you block it outright.
Does blocking Innologica affect my Google rankings?
No. Innologica is not a search-engine crawler. Your ranking on Google or Bing is unaffected by what you do here.
How do I confirm a request is really from Innologica?
Look at the User-Agent header in your access logs and match it against the strings listed above. Worth knowing that the User-Agent is easy to fake, so this check tells you "the traffic claims to be Innologica", not "the traffic is genuinely Innologica". If you need stronger guarantees, look for a reverse-DNS check or wait for Innologica to publish IP ranges.
What breaks if I block Innologica?
Link previews, embeds, and unfurls on whatever surface Innologica feeds will stop rendering. Users sharing your URLs into Innologica will see a bare link instead of a rich card. Usually that's the first thing people regret blocking.
How is Innologica different from Innologica's other bots?
Innologica splits work across multiple user-agents so site owners can decide on each one independently. Training crawlers, live-fetch agents, search indexers, and agentic browsers each get their own name. Worth scanning the rest of the Innologica family above to see which ones actually matter for your site.
What's the cleanest way to control Innologica?
Two layers. Robots.txt for the polite crawlers that read it, and rules at your CDN or edge for the ones that don't. Rankly's Agent Experience handles both from a single config, so you can allow, block, rate-limit, or serve a stripped-down version per bot. Agent Analytics handles the observation half so you know which bots are actually worth a rule.