Freshbot
European web content monitoring and freshness checking crawler
About this crawler
Freshbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Freshbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Freshbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Freshbot
- Pattern
Freshbot- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- http://webagent.wise-guys.nl/
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 (Freshbot/1.0/EU; http://webagent.wise-guys.nl/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Freshbot:
User-agent: Freshbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Freshbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Freshbot") {
return 403;
}
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