CC Metadata Scaper

archiver CC Metadata Scaper

Creative Commons metadata web crawler

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: CC Metadata Scaper
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
CC Metadata Scaper
Pattern
CC Metadata Scaper
Tags
archiver
Reference
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Metadata_Scraper
Added
2014/04/01
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

CC Metadata Scaper http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metadata_Scraper

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow CC Metadata Scaper:

User-agent: CC Metadata Scaper Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "CC Metadata Scaper") { return 403; }
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