Operator
Automated crawler performing repetitive internet tasks
About this crawler
Operator is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Operator\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Operator traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.52%
Technical details
- Name
- Operator
- Pattern
Operator\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://datadome.co/bots/operator/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Operator/1.0; +https://www.example.com/bot.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Operator:
User-agent: Operator
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Operator\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Operator\\/") {
return 403;
}
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