BUbiNG

academic BUbiNG

BUbiNG web crawler framework for research

About this crawler

BUbiNG is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern BUbiNG in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block BUbiNG traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.59%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: BUbiNG
2026-05-012026-06-040.98%

Technical details

Name
BUbiNG
Pattern
BUbiNG
Tags
academic
Reference
https://law.di.unimi.it/BUbiNG.html
Added
2015/04/06
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

BUbiNG (+http://law.di.unimi.it/BUbiNG.html)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow BUbiNG:

User-agent: BUbiNG Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} BUbiNG [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "BUbiNG") { return 403; }
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