OpenCalaisSemanticProxy
OpenCalais semantic analysis proxy
About this crawler
OpenCalaisSemanticProxy is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern OpenCalaisSemanticProxy in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-fetcher. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block OpenCalaisSemanticProxy traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- OpenCalaisSemanticProxy
- Pattern
OpenCalaisSemanticProxy- Tags
- ai-fetcher
- Reference
- http://www.opencalais.com/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
OpenCalaisSemanticProxy
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow OpenCalaisSemanticProxy:
User-agent: OpenCalaisSemanticProxy
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} OpenCalaisSemanticProxy [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "OpenCalaisSemanticProxy") {
return 403;
}
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