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Nimbostratus-Bot
Nimbostratus web crawler for cloud analysis
About this crawler
Nimbostratus-Bot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Nimbostratus-Bot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Nimbostratus-Bot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- Nimbostratus-Bot
- Pattern
Nimbostratus-Bot- Tags
- seo
- Added
- 2018/08/29
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Nimbostratus-Bot/v1.3.2; http://cloudsystemnetworks.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Nimbostratus-Bot:
User-agent: Nimbostratus-Bot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Nimbostratus-Bot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Nimbostratus-Bot") {
return 403;
}
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