EtaoSpider
Alibaba Etao shopping search engine crawler
About this crawler
EtaoSpider is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern EtaoSpider in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block EtaoSpider traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.52%
Technical details
- Name
- EtaoSpider
- Pattern
EtaoSpider- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://open.etao.com/dev/EtaoSpider
- Added
- 2026/05/02
- rDNS suffixes
.etaospider.com,.taobao.com- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely EtaoSpider 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.
.etaospider.com.taobao.com
Sample User-Agent strings
EtaoSpider
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EtaoSpider/1.0; http://open.etao.com/dev/EtaoSpider)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow EtaoSpider:
User-agent: EtaoSpider
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} EtaoSpider [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "EtaoSpider") {
return 403;
}
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