Kyoto-Tohoku-Crawler

academic Kyoto-(?:Tohoku-)?Crawler\/

Kyoto University web crawler

About this crawler

Kyoto-Tohoku-Crawler is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Kyoto-(?:Tohoku-)?Crawler\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Kyoto-Tohoku-Crawler traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

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Technical details

Name
Kyoto-Tohoku-Crawler
Pattern
Kyoto-(?:Tohoku-)?Crawler\/
Tags
academic
Reference
http://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
Added
2026/05/09
Instances
3 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Kyoto-Crawler/2.0 (Mozilla-compatible; kyoto-crawler-contact(at)nlp(dot)kuee(dot)kyoto-u(dot)ac(dot)jp; http://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/)
Kyoto-Crawler/n1.0 (Mozilla-compatible; [email protected]; http://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/?crawling)
Kyoto-Tohoku-Crawler/v1 (Mozilla-compatible; [email protected]; http://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/?crawling-kt)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Kyoto-Tohoku-Crawler:

User-agent: Kyoto-Tohoku-Crawler Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Kyoto-(?:Tohoku-)?Crawler\/ [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Kyoto-(?:Tohoku-)?Crawler\\/") { return 403; }
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