BrowserSpyBot
BrowserSpy bot
About this crawler
BrowserSpyBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern BrowserSpyBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block BrowserSpyBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- BrowserSpyBot
- Pattern
BrowserSpyBot- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- http://browserspy.dk/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0 (BrowserSpyBot/1.0) (http://browserspy.dk/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow BrowserSpyBot:
User-agent: BrowserSpyBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} BrowserSpyBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "BrowserSpyBot") {
return 403;
}
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