Nekstbot
Nekst research bot
About this crawler
Nekstbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Nekstbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Nekstbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Nekstbot
- Pattern
Nekstbot- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- http://nekst.ipipan.waw.pl/nekstbot/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Nekstbot; http://nekst.ipipan.waw.pl/nekstbot/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Nekstbot:
User-agent: Nekstbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Nekstbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Nekstbot") {
return 403;
}
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