Dark Visitor Client

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Headless bot detection helper client

About this crawler

Dark Visitor Client is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Dark Visitor Client in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Dark Visitor Client traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: DARK
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
Dark Visitor Client
Pattern
Dark Visitor Client
Tags
scanner
Reference
https://datadome.co/bots/dark-visitor-client/
Added
2026/04/17
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Dark Visitor Client

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Dark Visitor Client:

User-agent: Dark Visitor Client Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Dark Visitor Client [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Dark Visitor Client") { return 403; }
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