ExtLinksBot
ExtLinks web crawler for link analysis
About this crawler
ExtLinksBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ExtLinksBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ExtLinksBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.26%
Technical details
- Name
- ExtLinksBot
- Pattern
ExtLinksBot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://extlinks.com/Bot.html
- Added
- 2017/11/02
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExtLinksBot/1.5 +https://extlinks.com/Bot.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ExtLinksBot:
User-agent: ExtLinksBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ExtLinksBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ExtLinksBot") {
return 403;
}
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