Girafabot
Girafa search engine bot
About this crawler
Girafabot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Girafabot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Girafabot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- Girafabot
- Pattern
Girafabot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://www.girafa.com
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; Girafabot; girafabot at girafa dot com; http://www.girafa.com)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0; Girafabot; girafabot at girafa dot com; http://www.girafa.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Girafabot:
User-agent: Girafabot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Girafabot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Girafabot") {
return 403;
}
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