PayPal
Payment processor bot validating endpoints and compliance
About this crawler
PayPal is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PayPal\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PayPal traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- PayPal
- Pattern
PayPal\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://www.paypal.com/ipn
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 0 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
no public sample user-agents recorded.
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow PayPal:
User-agent: PayPal
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PayPal\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "PayPal\\/") {
return 403;
}
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