PocketParser
Pocket web crawler for content parsing
About this crawler
PocketParser is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PocketParser in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PocketParser traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- PocketParser
- Pattern
PocketParser- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://getpocket.com/pocketparser_ua
- Added
- 2017/11/02
- rDNS suffixes
.getpocket.com,.pocket.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely PocketParser with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.getpocket.com.pocket.com
Sample User-Agent strings
PocketParser/2.0 (+https://getpocket.com/pocketparser_ua)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow PocketParser:
User-agent: PocketParser
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PocketParser [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "PocketParser") {
return 403;
}
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