PiplBot
Pipl web crawler for people search
About this crawler
PiplBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PiplBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PiplBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.72%
Technical details
- Name
- PiplBot
- Pattern
PiplBot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://pipl.com/bot
- Added
- 2017/10/30
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
PiplBot (+http://www.pipl.com/bot/)
Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+PiplBot;+http://www.pipl.com/bot/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow PiplBot:
User-agent: PiplBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PiplBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "PiplBot") {
return 403;
}
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