PressEngineBot
Press release aggregation crawler for content syndication
About this crawler
PressEngineBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PressEngineBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PressEngineBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- PressEngineBot
- Pattern
PressEngineBot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://pressengine.net/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
PressEngineBot (+http://pressengine.net/crawl-policy)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow PressEngineBot:
User-agent: PressEngineBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PressEngineBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "PressEngineBot") {
return 403;
}
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