ArchiveBox
Web archiving tool for long-term content preservation
About this crawler
ArchiveBox is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ArchiveBox in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as archiver. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ArchiveBox traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- ArchiveBox
- Pattern
ArchiveBox- Tags
- archiver
- Reference
- https://archivebox.io/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/0.7.2 (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ArchiveBox:
User-agent: ArchiveBox
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ArchiveBox [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ArchiveBox") {
return 403;
}
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