360Spider

search-engine 360Spider

360 search engine web crawler bot

About this crawler

360Spider is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern 360Spider in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block 360Spider traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.85%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: 360Spider
2026-05-012026-06-041.1%

Technical details

Name
360Spider
Pattern
360Spider
Tags
search-engine
Reference
http://needs-be.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/how-to-block-spider360.html
Added
2014/03/14
rDNS suffixes
.360.cn, .haosou.com, .qihoo.com, .so.com
Instances
10 known sample(s)

rDNS verification (FCrDNS)

Verify a request is genuinely 360Spider with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1; 360Spider
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1; 360Spider(compatible; HaosouSpider; http://www.haosou.com/help/help_3_2.html)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36 QIHU 360SE; 360Spider
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; ) Firefox/1.5.0.11; 360Spider
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.8.0.11) Firefox/1.5.0.11; 360Spider
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.8.0.11) Firefox/1.5.0.11 360Spider;
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11; 360Spider
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0); 360Spider
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0); 360Spider(compatible; HaosouSpider; http://www.haosou.com/help/help_3_2.html)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36; 360Spider

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow 360Spider:

User-agent: 360Spider Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} 360Spider [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "360Spider") { return 403; }
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