Owler ows.eu
European open search crawler for decentralized indexing
About this crawler
Owler ows.eu is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Owler \(ows\.eu in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Owler ows.eu traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Owler ows.eu
- Pattern
Owler \(ows\.eu- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://openwebsearch.eu/owler/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Owler (ows.eu/owler)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Owler ows.eu:
User-agent: Owler ows.eu
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Owler \(ows\.eu [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Owler \\(ows\\.eu") {
return 403;
}
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