Dow Jones Searchbot

monitoring Dow Jones Searchbot

Dow Jones news and financial content aggregation crawler

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.056%
latest snapshot
2026-06-02
matched key: Black Widow
2026-05-092026-06-020.11%

Technical details

Name
Dow Jones Searchbot
Pattern
Dow Jones Searchbot
Tags
monitoring
Reference
https://www.dowjones.com/
Added
2026/04/26
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Dow Jones Searchbot)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Dow Jones Searchbot:

User-agent: Dow Jones Searchbot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Dow Jones Searchbot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Dow Jones Searchbot") { return 403; }
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