OWLer-W
Business intelligence and company data collection crawler bot
About this crawler
OWLer-W is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern OWLer-W in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block OWLer-W traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- OWLer-W
- Pattern
OWLer-W- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://openwebsearch.eu/
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
OWLer-W ([email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow OWLer-W:
User-agent: OWLer-W
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} OWLer-W [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "OWLer-W") {
return 403;
}
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