DataForSeoBot
DataForSEO web crawler for analysis
About this crawler
DataForSeoBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern DataForSeoBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block DataForSeoBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
2.5%
Technical details
- Name
- DataForSeoBot
- Pattern
DataForSeoBot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://dataforseo.com/dataforseo-bot
- Added
- 2023/08/23
- rDNS suffixes
.dataforseo.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely DataForSeoBot with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.dataforseo.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DataForSeoBot/1.0; +https://dataforseo.com/dataforseo-bot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow DataForSeoBot:
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} DataForSeoBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "DataForSeoBot") {
return 403;
}
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