LinkWalker
Automated web crawler for content and data collection purposes
About this crawler
LinkWalker is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern LinkWalker\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block LinkWalker traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.78%
Technical details
- Name
- LinkWalker
- Pattern
LinkWalker\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://datadome.co/bots/linkwalker/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; LinkWalker/2.0; +http://www.seventwentyfour.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow LinkWalker:
User-agent: LinkWalker
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} LinkWalker\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "LinkWalker\\/") {
return 403;
}
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