KeybaseBot

social-preview KeybaseBot

Keybase web crawler for link previews

About this crawler

KeybaseBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern KeybaseBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block KeybaseBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

No block-rate data for this crawler.

Technical details

Name
KeybaseBot
Pattern
KeybaseBot
Tags
social-preview
Reference
https://book.keybase.io/docs/chat/link-previews
Added
2024/10/21
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; KeybaseBot; +https://keybase.io)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow KeybaseBot:

User-agent: KeybaseBot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} KeybaseBot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "KeybaseBot") { return 403; }
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