Grover

seo 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.

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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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