Blackboard

academic Blackboard

Blackboard SafeAssign web crawler bot

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.33%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Blackboard
2026-05-012026-06-040.52%

Technical details

Name
Blackboard
Pattern
Blackboard
Tags
academic
Reference
https://self-hosting.blackboard.com/Learn/Administrator/Hosting/Tools_Management/SafeAssign.html
Added
2018/10/28
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Blackboard Safeassign

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Blackboard:

User-agent: Blackboard Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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