AspiegelBot
Aspiegel web crawler for content discovery
About this crawler
AspiegelBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern AspiegelBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block AspiegelBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.20%
Technical details
- Name
- AspiegelBot
- Pattern
AspiegelBot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://aspiegel.com
- Added
- 2020/03/16
- rDNS suffixes
.aspiegel.com,.huawei.com,.petalsearch.com,.petalsearch.net- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely AspiegelBot 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.
.aspiegel.com.huawei.com.petalsearch.com.petalsearch.net
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0;) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; AspiegelBot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow AspiegelBot:
User-agent: AspiegelBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AspiegelBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "AspiegelBot") {
return 403;
}
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