ICBot
Ideas and Code web crawler bot
About this crawler
ICBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ICBot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ICBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- ICBot
- Pattern
ICBot\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://ideasandcode.xyz
- Added
- 2018/10/23
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ICBot/0.1; +https://ideasandcode.xyz
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ICBot:
User-agent: ICBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ICBot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ICBot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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