Detectify
Vulnerability and attack surface scanning bot
About this crawler
Detectify is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Detectify in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Detectify traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- Detectify
- Pattern
Detectify- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- https://detectify.com/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Detectify) +https://detectify.com/bot/
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Detectify:
User-agent: Detectify
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Detectify [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Detectify") {
return 403;
}
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