BLEXBot
WebMeUp BLEX web crawler bot
About this crawler
BLEXBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern BLEXBot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block BLEXBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
4.0%
Technical details
- Name
- BLEXBot
- Pattern
BLEXBot\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://www.link-assistant.com
- Added
- 2018/07/07
- rDNS suffixes
.blex.net,.blexbot.com,.webmeup.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely BLEXBot 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.
.blex.net.blexbot.com.webmeup.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BLEXBot/1.0; +http://webmeup-crawler.com/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow BLEXBot:
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} BLEXBot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "BLEXBot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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