Cookiebot
Cookiebot web crawler for cookie scanning
About this crawler
Cookiebot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Cookiebot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Cookiebot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.20%
Technical details
- Name
- Cookiebot
- Pattern
Cookiebot- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- https://www.cookiebot.com/
- Added
- 2022/01/23
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Cookiebot/1.0; +http://cookiebot.com/) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Cookiebot:
User-agent: Cookiebot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Cookiebot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Cookiebot") {
return 403;
}
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