PanguBot
Chinese search engine crawler indexing websites
About this crawler
PanguBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PanguBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PanguBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
2.0%
Technical details
- Name
- PanguBot
- Pattern
PanguBot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://datadome.co/bots/pangubot/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PanguBot +https://www.pangutech.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow PanguBot:
User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PanguBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "PanguBot") {
return 403;
}
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