Aranea
Automated web crawler for content aggregation
About this crawler
Aranea is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Aranea in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Aranea traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Aranea
- Pattern
Aranea- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- http://unesco.uniba.sk/guest/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Aranea Web-Crawled Corpora Project (+http://unesco.uniba.sk/guest (Hebrew 2024 Spring Crawl))
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Aranea:
User-agent: Aranea
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Aranea [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Aranea") {
return 403;
}
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