AdvBot
AdvBot web crawler for advertising analysis
About this crawler
AdvBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern AdvBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block AdvBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- AdvBot
- Pattern
AdvBot- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- http://advbot.net/bot.html
- Added
- 2015/02/01
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AdvBot/2.0; +http://advbot.net/bot.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow AdvBot:
User-agent: AdvBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AdvBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "AdvBot") {
return 403;
}
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