Gigablast

search-engine Gigablast

Gigablast open-source search engine crawler

About this crawler

Gigablast is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Gigablast in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Gigablast 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: Gigablast
2026-05-012026-06-040.17%

Technical details

Name
Gigablast
Pattern
Gigablast
Tags
search-engine
Reference
https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

GigablastOpenSource/1.0

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Gigablast:

User-agent: Gigablast Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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