BoxcarBot
Boxcar web crawler for notifications
About this crawler
BoxcarBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern BoxcarBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block BoxcarBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- BoxcarBot
- Pattern
BoxcarBot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://boxcar.io/
- Added
- 2018/06/27
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BoxcarBot/1.1; [email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow BoxcarBot:
User-agent: BoxcarBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} BoxcarBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "BoxcarBot") {
return 403;
}
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