BW
Technology profiling crawler for web analytics
About this crawler
BW is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern BW\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block BW traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- BW
- Pattern
BW\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://builtwith.com/biup
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; BW/1.2; rb.gy/oupwis) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow BW:
User-agent: BW
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} BW\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "BW\\/") {
return 403;
}
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