Friendly testing bot
Testing crawler verifying website functionality and response behavior
About this crawler
Friendly testing bot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Friendly testing bot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Friendly testing bot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Friendly testing bot
- Pattern
Friendly testing bot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://datadome.co/bots/friendly-testing-bot/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Friendly testing bot
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Friendly testing bot:
User-agent: Friendly testing bot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Friendly testing bot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Friendly testing bot") {
return 403;
}
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