Factbot
Factbites fact extraction bot
About this crawler
Factbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Factbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Factbot 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
- Factbot
- Pattern
Factbot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- http://www.factbites.com/webmasters.php
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Factbot 1.09 (see http://www.factbites.com/webmasters.php)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Factbot:
User-agent: Factbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Factbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Factbot ") {
return 403;
}
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