DWDS-Crawler
DWDS dictionary crawler
About this crawler
DWDS-Crawler is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern DWDS-Crawler in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block DWDS-Crawler traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- DWDS-Crawler
- Pattern
DWDS-Crawler- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- http://odo.dwds.de/dwds-crawler.html
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
DWDS-Crawler +http://odo.dwds.de/dwds-crawler.html
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow DWDS-Crawler:
User-agent: DWDS-Crawler
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} DWDS-Crawler [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "DWDS-Crawler") {
return 403;
}
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