OpenindexSpider
OpenIndex web crawler
About this crawler
OpenindexSpider is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern OpenindexSpider in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block OpenindexSpider traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.59%
Technical details
- Name
- OpenindexSpider
- Pattern
OpenindexSpider- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://www.openindex.io/en/webmasters/spider.html
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OpenindexSpider; +http://www.openindex.io/en/webmasters/spider.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow OpenindexSpider:
User-agent: OpenindexSpider
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} OpenindexSpider [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "OpenindexSpider") {
return 403;
}
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