NLNZ_IAHarvester
New Zealand library digital preservation and archiving bot
About this crawler
NLNZ_IAHarvester is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern NLNZ_IAHarvester in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as archiver. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block NLNZ_IAHarvester traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- NLNZ_IAHarvester
- Pattern
NLNZ_IAHarvester- Tags
- archiver
- Reference
- https://natlib.govt.nz/publishers-and-authors/web-harvesting
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NLNZ_IAHarvester2024/3.3.0; +https://natlib.govt.nz/publishers-and-authors/web-harvesting/domain-harvest)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow NLNZ_IAHarvester:
User-agent: NLNZ_IAHarvester
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} NLNZ_IAHarvester [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "NLNZ_IAHarvester") {
return 403;
}
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