HubPages
HubPages content crawler
About this crawler
HubPages is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern HubPages in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block HubPages traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- HubPages
- Pattern
HubPages- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- http://hubpages.com/help/crawlingpolicy
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
HubPages V0.2.2 (http://hubpages.com/help/crawlingpolicy)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow HubPages:
User-agent: HubPages
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HubPages [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "HubPages") {
return 403;
}
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