GIDBot
GID Network gzip test bot
About this crawler
GIDBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern GIDBot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block GIDBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- GIDBot
- Pattern
GIDBot\/- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
GIDBot/3.0 (+http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow GIDBot:
User-agent: GIDBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GIDBot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "GIDBot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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