AllAfrica
Content aggregator for African news coverage
About this crawler
AllAfrica is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern AllAfrica in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block AllAfrica traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- AllAfrica
- Pattern
AllAfrica- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://allafrica.com/tools/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
AllAfricaBot
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AllAfrica; +https://allafrica.com/)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AllAfrica NewsBot; +https://allafrica.com/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow AllAfrica:
User-agent: AllAfrica
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AllAfrica [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "AllAfrica") {
return 403;
}
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