IstellaBot
Istella web crawler for search indexing
About this crawler
IstellaBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern IstellaBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block IstellaBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.65%
Technical details
- Name
- IstellaBot
- Pattern
IstellaBot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://www.tiscali.it/
- Added
- 2016/01/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; IstellaBot/1.23.15 +http://www.tiscali.it/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow IstellaBot:
User-agent: IstellaBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} IstellaBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "IstellaBot") {
return 403;
}
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