Friendica

social-preview Friendica

Friendica social network web crawler bot

About this crawler

Friendica is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Friendica in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Friendica traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Friendica
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
Friendica
Pattern
Friendica
Tags
social-preview
Reference
https://hoyer.xyz
Added
2019/09/28
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Friendica 'The Tazmans Flax-lily' 2019.01-1293; https://hoyer.xyz

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Friendica:

User-agent: Friendica Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Friendica [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Friendica") { return 403; }
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