AutomatonBot
Automation platform for web service workflows
About this crawler
AutomatonBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern AutomatonBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block AutomatonBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- AutomatonBot
- Pattern
AutomatonBot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://datadome.co/bots/automaton/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
AutomatonBot
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow AutomatonBot:
User-agent: AutomatonBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AutomatonBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "AutomatonBot") {
return 403;
}
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