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Nutch

search-engine Nutch

Apache Nutch open-source web crawler framework

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

1.1%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Nutch
2026-05-012026-06-041.6%

Technical details

Name
Nutch
Pattern
Nutch
Tags
search-engine
Instances
3 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/605.1.16 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Friendly_Crawler/2.0) Chrome/120.0.6099.217 Safari/605.1.15/Nutch-1.20-SNAPSHOT
NutchCVS/0.7.1 (Nutch; http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/bot.html; [email protected])
istellabot-nutch/Nutch-1.10

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Nutch:

User-agent: Nutch Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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