PingSpot
PingSpot monitoring bot
About this crawler
PingSpot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PingSpot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PingSpot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- PingSpot
- Pattern
PingSpot- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- http://www.pingspot.org/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
PingSpot/1.0 (http://www.pingspot.org/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow PingSpot:
User-agent: PingSpot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PingSpot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "PingSpot") {
return 403;
}
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