FediDB
Fediverse instance database and statistics collection crawler bot
About this crawler
FediDB is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern FediDB in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block FediDB traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- FediDB
- Pattern
FediDB- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://fedidb.com/resources/data-sources
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
FediDB/0.5.0; +https://fedidb.org/crawler.html
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow FediDB:
User-agent: FediDB
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} FediDB [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "FediDB") {
return 403;
}
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