OutclicksBot
Outclicks web crawler for link tracking
About this crawler
OutclicksBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern OutclicksBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block OutclicksBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.26%
Technical details
- Name
- OutclicksBot
- Pattern
OutclicksBot- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- https://www.sovrn.com/commerce/
- Added
- 2018/04/21
- Instances
- 4 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
OutclicksBot/2 +https://www.outclicks.net/agent/VjzDygCuk4ubNmg40ZMbFqT0sIh7UfOKk8s8ZMiupUR
OutclicksBot/2 +https://www.outclicks.net/agent/gIYbZ38dfAuhZkrFVl7sJBFOUhOVct6J1SvxgmBZgCe
OutclicksBot/2 +https://www.outclicks.net/agent/PryJzTl8POCRHfvEUlRN5FKtZoWDQOBEvFJ2wh6KH5J
OutclicksBot/2 +https://www.outclicks.net/agent/p2i4sNUh7eylJF1S6SGgRs5mP40ExlYvsr9GBxVQG6h
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow OutclicksBot:
User-agent: OutclicksBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} OutclicksBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "OutclicksBot") {
return 403;
}
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