Brandwatch
Social listening and sentiment analysis platform
About this crawler
Brandwatch is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Brandwatch in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Brandwatch traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.39%
Technical details
- Name
- Brandwatch
- Pattern
Brandwatch- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://www.brandwatch.com/legal/crawlers/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Brandwatch/1.0 (varies)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Brandwatch:
User-agent: Brandwatch
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Brandwatch [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Brandwatch") {
return 403;
}
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