OpenfosBot

seo OpenfosBot

Openfos web crawler

About this crawler

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

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Technical details

Name
OpenfosBot
Pattern
OpenfosBot
Tags
seo
Reference
http://www.openfos.com
Added
2026/05/09
Instances
2 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OpenfosBot/2.1; http://www.openfos.com)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OpenfosBot/2.4; +http://www.openfos.com)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow OpenfosBot:

User-agent: OpenfosBot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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