Ghost Inspector
Browser testing service automating UI tests and monitoring website changes
About this crawler
Ghost Inspector is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Ghost Inspector in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as browser-automation. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Ghost Inspector traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Ghost Inspector
- Pattern
Ghost Inspector- Tags
- browser-automation
- Reference
- https://ghostinspector.com/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- rDNS suffixes
.ghostinspector.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Ghost Inspector with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.ghostinspector.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0 Safari/537.36 Ghost Inspector (63c85ddbde52d6697f57c623)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Ghost Inspector:
User-agent: Ghost Inspector
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Ghost Inspector [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Ghost Inspector") {
return 403;
}
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