ImageFetcher
Image proxy service fetching and caching images for web applications
About this crawler
ImageFetcher is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ImageFetcher\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ImageFetcher traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- ImageFetcher
- Pattern
ImageFetcher\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://wsrv.nl/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ImageFetcher/9.0; +http://wsrv.nl/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ImageFetcher:
User-agent: ImageFetcher
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ImageFetcher\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ImageFetcher\\/") {
return 403;
}
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