Embedly
Embedly web crawler for content embedding
About this crawler
Embedly is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Embedly in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Embedly traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.26%
Technical details
- Name
- Embedly
- Pattern
Embedly- Tags
- social-preview
- Reference
- https://support.embed.ly/hc/en-us
- Added
- 2016/04/25
- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Embedly [email protected]
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Embedly/0.2; +http://support.embed.ly/)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Embedly/0.2; snap; +http://support.embed.ly/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Embedly:
User-agent: Embedly
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Embedly [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Embedly") {
return 403;
}
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