PrintFriendly.com
Print optimization crawler converting pages to printable format
About this crawler
PrintFriendly.com is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PrintFriendly\.com in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PrintFriendly.com traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- PrintFriendly.com
- Pattern
PrintFriendly\.com- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://www.printfriendly.com/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i586; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 PrintFriendly.com
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow PrintFriendly.com:
User-agent: PrintFriendly.com
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PrintFriendly\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "PrintFriendly\\.com") {
return 403;
}
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