Caliperbot

seo Caliperbot

Conductor Caliperbot web crawler for analysis

About this crawler

Caliperbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Caliperbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Caliperbot 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: Caliperbot
2026-05-012026-06-040.60%

Technical details

Name
Caliperbot
Pattern
Caliperbot
Tags
seo
Reference
https://www.conductor.com/legal/caliperbot/
Added
2019/03/02
rDNS suffixes
.conductor.com
Instances
1 known sample(s)

rDNS verification (FCrDNS)

Verify a request is genuinely Caliperbot 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

Caliperbot/1.0 (+http://www.conductor.com/caliperbot)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Caliperbot:

User-agent: Caliperbot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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