BnFBot
French national library archiving cultural content
About this crawler
BnFBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern BnFBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as archiver. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block BnFBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- BnFBot
- Pattern
BnFBot- Tags
- archiver
- Reference
- https://www.bnf.fr/en/web-services
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
BnFBot
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow BnFBot:
User-agent: BnFBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} BnFBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "BnFBot") {
return 403;
}
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