Finderbots
Bixo Finderbots crawler
About this crawler
Finderbots is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Finderbots in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Finderbots 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
- Finderbots
- Pattern
Finderbots- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- http://wiki.github.com/bixo/bixo/bixocrawler
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Finderbots finder bot; +http://wiki.github.com/bixo/bixo/bixocrawler; [email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Finderbots:
User-agent: Finderbots
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Finderbots [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Finderbots") {
return 403;
}
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