Girafabot

search-engine 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

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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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