GrapeshotCrawler
Grapeshot web crawler for content analysis
About this crawler
GrapeshotCrawler is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern GrapeshotCrawler in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block GrapeshotCrawler traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.59%
Technical details
- Name
- GrapeshotCrawler
- Pattern
GrapeshotCrawler- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/
- Added
- 2014/04/01
- rDNS suffixes
.grapeshot.co.uk,.grapeshot.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely GrapeshotCrawler with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.grapeshot.co.uk.grapeshot.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GrapeshotCrawler/2.0; +http://www.grapeshot.co.uk/crawler.php)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow GrapeshotCrawler:
User-agent: GrapeshotCrawler
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GrapeshotCrawler [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "GrapeshotCrawler") {
return 403;
}
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