HolmesBot
HolmesBot web crawler
About this crawler
HolmesBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern HolmesBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block HolmesBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- HolmesBot
- Pattern
HolmesBot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- http://holmes.ge
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
HolmesBot (http://holmes.ge)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow HolmesBot:
User-agent: HolmesBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HolmesBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "HolmesBot") {
return 403;
}
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