404 Checker

monitoring 404 Checker

404 link checker service

About this crawler

404 Checker is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern 404 Checker in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block 404 Checker traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.26%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: 404checker
2026-05-012026-06-040.43%

Technical details

Name
404 Checker
Pattern
404 Checker
Tags
monitoring
Reference
http://www.404checker.com/user-agent
Added
2026/05/09
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

404 Checker [http://www.404checker.com/user-agent]

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow 404 Checker:

User-agent: 404 Checker Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} 404 Checker [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "404 Checker") { return 403; }
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