Aboundex

search-engine Aboundex

Aboundex web crawler for content discovery

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.33%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Aboundex
2026-05-012026-06-040.52%

Technical details

Name
Aboundex
Pattern
Aboundex
Tags
search-engine
Reference
http://www.aboundex.com/crawler/
Added
2011/09/28
Instances
2 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Aboundex/0.2 (http://www.aboundex.com/crawler/)
Aboundex/0.3 (http://www.aboundex.com/crawler/)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Aboundex:

User-agent: Aboundex Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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