PaperLiBot

seo PaperLiBot

Paper.li web crawler for content curation

About this crawler

PaperLiBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PaperLiBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PaperLiBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: PaperLiBot
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
PaperLiBot
Pattern
PaperLiBot
Tags
seo
Reference
http://support.paper.li/entries/20023257-what-is-paper-li
Added
2017/09/25
Instances
2 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PaperLiBot/2.1; http://support.paper.li/entries/20023257-what-is-paper-li)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PaperLiBot/2.1; https://support.paper.li/entries/20023257-what-is-paper-li)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow PaperLiBot:

User-agent: PaperLiBot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PaperLiBot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "PaperLiBot") { return 403; }
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