FriendlyCrawler
General web crawler indexing content for data collection purposes
About this crawler
FriendlyCrawler is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern FriendlyCrawler\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block FriendlyCrawler traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
2.3%
Technical details
- Name
- FriendlyCrawler
- Pattern
FriendlyCrawler\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://datadome.co/bots/friendlycrawler/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; FriendlyCrawler/1.0) Chrome/120.0.6099.216 Safari/605.1.15
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow FriendlyCrawler:
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} FriendlyCrawler\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "FriendlyCrawler\\/") {
return 403;
}
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