Falconsbot
Falcons semantic web search crawler
About this crawler
Falconsbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Falconsbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Falconsbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Falconsbot
- Pattern
Falconsbot- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- http://ws.nju.edu.cn/falcons/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Falconsbot; +http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/falcons/contact_us.jsp)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Falconsbot; +http://ws.nju.edu.cn/falcons/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Falconsbot:
User-agent: Falconsbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Falconsbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Falconsbot") {
return 403;
}
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