Hype Machine
Music blog aggregator crawler indexing tracks and artist content
About this crawler
Hype Machine is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Hype Machine\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Hype Machine traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Hype Machine
- Pattern
Hype Machine\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://hypem.com/latest
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Hype Machine/4.0 hypem.com ([email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Hype Machine:
User-agent: Hype Machine
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Hype Machine\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Hype Machine\\/") {
return 403;
}
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