KosmioBot
Kosmio web crawler for content discovery
About this crawler
KosmioBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern KosmioBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block KosmioBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- KosmioBot
- Pattern
KosmioBot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://kosm.io/bot.html
- Added
- 2017/09/16
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.125 Safari/537.36 (compatible; KosmioBot/1.0; +http://kosm.io/bot.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow KosmioBot:
User-agent: KosmioBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} KosmioBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "KosmioBot") {
return 403;
}
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