ACHE
ACHE focused web crawler from NYU
About this crawler
ACHE is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ACHE in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ACHE traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- ACHE
- Pattern
ACHE- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- https://github.com/ViDA-NYU/ache
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ACHE/Unknown Version; +https://github.com/ViDA-NYU/ache; )
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ACHE:
User-agent: ACHE
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ACHE [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ACHE") {
return 403;
}
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