Citoid
Wikipedia citation generator extracting metadata for automatic reference creation
About this crawler
Citoid is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Citoid in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Citoid traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.26%
Technical details
- Name
- Citoid
- Pattern
Citoid- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Citoid (Wikimedia tool; learn more at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Citoid:
User-agent: Citoid
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Citoid [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Citoid") {
return 403;
}
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