Charlotte
Financial institution and robot-friendly crawler
About this crawler
Charlotte is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Charlotte in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Charlotte traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- Charlotte
- Pattern
Charlotte- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://datadome.co/bots/charlotte-bot/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Commonly seen variations include: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20080109 (Charlotte/0.9t; http://www.searchme.com/support/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Charlotte:
User-agent: Charlotte
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Charlotte [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Charlotte") {
return 403;
}
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