CapsuleChecker
Capsule web crawler for link checking
About this crawler
CapsuleChecker is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern CapsuleChecker in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block CapsuleChecker traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- CapsuleChecker
- Pattern
CapsuleChecker- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://www.capsulink.com/features
- Added
- 2016/01/02
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
CapsuleChecker (http://www.capsulink.com/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow CapsuleChecker:
User-agent: CapsuleChecker
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} CapsuleChecker [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "CapsuleChecker") {
return 403;
}
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