LinkArchiver

archiver LinkArchiver

LinkArchiver web crawler for archiving

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.26%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: LinkArchiver
2026-05-012026-06-040.35%

Technical details

Name
LinkArchiver
Pattern
LinkArchiver
Tags
archiver
Reference
https://github.com/thisisparker/linkarchiver
Added
2017/09/24
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

@LinkArchiver twitter bot

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow LinkArchiver:

User-agent: LinkArchiver Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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