Abrave
Abrave search engine web crawler
About this crawler
Abrave is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Abrave in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Abrave traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- Abrave
- Pattern
Abrave- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://robot.abrave.com
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 4 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Abrave Spider v4 Robot 1 (http://robot.abrave.co.uk)
Abrave Spider v4 Robot 2 (http://robot.abrave.co.uk)
Abrave v5.5 (http://robot.abrave.co.uk)
Abrave v6.0 (http://robot.abrave.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Abrave:
User-agent: Abrave
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Abrave [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Abrave") {
return 403;
}
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