AdAuth
AdAuth advertising authentication and verification bot
About this crawler
AdAuth is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern AdAuth in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block AdAuth 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
- AdAuth
- Pattern
AdAuth- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- https://www.adauth.com
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
AdAuth/1.0; +https://www.adauth.com
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow AdAuth:
User-agent: AdAuth
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AdAuth [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "AdAuth") {
return 403;
}
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