OpenHoseBot
OpenHose web crawler for content analysis
About this crawler
OpenHoseBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern OpenHoseBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block OpenHoseBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- OpenHoseBot
- Pattern
OpenHoseBot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://www.openhose.org/bot.html
- Added
- 2016/01/02
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OpenHoseBot/2.1; +http://www.openhose.org/bot.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow OpenHoseBot:
User-agent: OpenHoseBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} OpenHoseBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "OpenHoseBot") {
return 403;
}
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