BrowserStack

browser-automation BrowserStack

Cloud cross-browser testing platform using real browsers

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

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Technical details

Name
BrowserStack
Pattern
BrowserStack
Tags
browser-automation
Reference
https://www.browserstack.com/
Added
2026/05/02
rDNS suffixes
.browserstack.com
Instances
0 known sample(s)

rDNS verification (FCrDNS)

Verify a request is genuinely BrowserStack 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

no public sample user-agents recorded.

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow BrowserStack:

User-agent: BrowserStack Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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