PiplBot

seo 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%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: PiplBot
2026-05-012026-06-041.1%

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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