Pywikibot
MediaWiki crawler indexing wiki content for search and analysis
About this crawler
Pywikibot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Pywikibot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Pywikibot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- Pywikibot
- Pattern
Pywikibot\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
wlc3 Pywikibot/9.0.0.dev0 (g18371) requests/2.31.0 Python/3.10.12.final.0
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Pywikibot:
User-agent: Pywikibot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Pywikibot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Pywikibot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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