AcademicBotRTU

academic AcademicBotRTU

Academic Bot RTU web crawler bot

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.067%
latest snapshot
2026-06-01
matched key: AcademicBotRTU
2026-05-092026-06-010.11%

Technical details

Name
AcademicBotRTU
Pattern
AcademicBotRTU
Tags
academic
Reference
https://academicbot.rtu.lv
Added
2024/10/17
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

AcademicBotRTU (https://academicbot.rtu.lv; mailto:[email protected])

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow AcademicBotRTU:

User-agent: AcademicBotRTU Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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