BitSightBot
BitSight web crawler for security
About this crawler
BitSightBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern BitSightBot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block BitSightBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- BitSightBot
- Pattern
BitSightBot\/- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- https://www.bitsight.com
- Added
- 2023/08/16
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BitSightBot/1.0)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow BitSightBot:
User-agent: BitSightBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} BitSightBot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "BitSightBot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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