Puppeteer
Puppeteer browser automation web crawler
About this crawler
Puppeteer is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Puppeteer in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as browser-automation. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Puppeteer traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Puppeteer
- Pattern
Puppeteer- Tags
- browser-automation
- Reference
- https://pptr.dev
- Added
- 2026/04/07
- rDNS suffixes
.pptr.dev,.puppeteer.dev- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Puppeteer 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.
.pptr.dev.puppeteer.dev
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Puppeteer
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Puppeteer:
User-agent: Puppeteer
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Puppeteer [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Puppeteer") {
return 403;
}
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