IXEbot
IXE academic web crawler from University of Pisa
About this crawler
IXEbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern IXEbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block IXEbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- IXEbot
- Pattern
IXEbot- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- http://medialab.di.unipi.it/IXEbot.html
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; IXEbot; +http://medialab.di.unipi.it/IXEbot.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow IXEbot:
User-agent: IXEbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} IXEbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "IXEbot") {
return 403;
}
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