FediIndex
Fediverse server indexing and discovery service web crawler
About this crawler
FediIndex is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern FediIndex in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block FediIndex 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
- FediIndex
- Pattern
FediIndex- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://fedi.wrm.sr/about
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
FediIndex/1.0 (+https://fedi.wrm.sr/about)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow FediIndex:
User-agent: FediIndex
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} FediIndex [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "FediIndex") {
return 403;
}
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