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Dex Social Bot
Dex social media bot
About this crawler
Dex Social Bot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Dex Social Bot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Dex Social Bot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Dex Social Bot
- Pattern
Dex Social Bot- Tags
- social-preview
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Dex Social Bot
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Dex Social Bot:
User-agent: Dex Social Bot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Dex Social Bot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Dex Social Bot") {
return 403;
}
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