Gigabot
Gigablast search engine web crawler bot
About this crawler
Gigabot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Gigabot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Gigabot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
1.2%
Technical details
- Name
- Gigabot
- Pattern
Gigabot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://www.gigablast.com/spider.html
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Gigabot/1.0
Gigabot/2.0 (http://www.gigablast.com/spider.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Gigabot:
User-agent: Gigabot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Gigabot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Gigabot") {
return 403;
}
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