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Exabot-Thumbnails
Exabot thumbnail generation crawler
About this crawler
Exabot-Thumbnails is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Exabot-Thumbnails in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Exabot-Thumbnails traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- Exabot-Thumbnails
- Pattern
Exabot-Thumbnails- Tags
- social-preview
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.5 (like Gecko) (Exabot-Thumbnails)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Exabot-Thumbnails:
User-agent: Exabot-Thumbnails
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Exabot-Thumbnails [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Exabot-Thumbnails") {
return 403;
}
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