Grover
Anonymous web crawler likely used for research or content scraping
About this crawler
Grover is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Grover\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Grover traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Grover
- Pattern
Grover\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://datadome.co/bots/grover-bot/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Grover/Grover-1.18 (Web Crawler)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Grover:
User-agent: Grover
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Grover\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Grover\\/") {
return 403;
}
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