ApifyBot
Apify's web scraping and data extraction
About this crawler
ApifyBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ApifyBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-crawler. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ApifyBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.26%
Technical details
- Name
- ApifyBot
- Pattern
ApifyBot- Tags
- ai-crawler
- Reference
- https://knownagents.com/agents/apifybot
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- rDNS suffixes
.apify.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely ApifyBot with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.apify.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ApifyBot/1.0)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ApifyBot:
User-agent: ApifyBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ApifyBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ApifyBot") {
return 403;
}
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