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GitHub-Hookshot
GitHub webhook delivery service
About this crawler
GitHub-Hookshot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern GitHub-Hookshot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block GitHub-Hookshot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- GitHub-Hookshot
- Pattern
GitHub-Hookshot\/- Tags
- monitoring
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
GitHub-Hookshot/a6f2714
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow GitHub-Hookshot:
User-agent: GitHub-Hookshot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GitHub-Hookshot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "GitHub-Hookshot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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