CDSCbot
Academic research crawler for Fediverse decentralized social networks
About this crawler
CDSCbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern CDSCbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block CDSCbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- CDSCbot
- Pattern
CDSCbot- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- https://wiki.communitydata.science/CommunityData:Fediverse_research
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
CDSCbot/2024.08.08 https://wiki.communitydata.science/CommunityData:Fediverse_research
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow CDSCbot:
User-agent: CDSCbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} CDSCbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "CDSCbot") {
return 403;
}
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