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%
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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