BrightEdge Crawler

seo BrightEdge Crawler

BrightEdge web crawler for SEO

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.39%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: BrightEdge Crawler
2026-05-012026-06-040.69%

Technical details

Name
BrightEdge Crawler
Pattern
BrightEdge Crawler
Tags
seo
Reference
https://www.brightedge.com/
Added
2023/09/08
rDNS suffixes
.brightedge.com
Instances
1 known sample(s)

rDNS verification (FCrDNS)

Verify a request is genuinely BrightEdge Crawler with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.

Sample User-Agent strings

BrightEdge Crawler/1.0 ([email protected])

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow BrightEdge Crawler:

User-agent: BrightEdge Crawler Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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