ResearchBot
Academic research data collection and analysis crawler bot
About this crawler
ResearchBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ResearchBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ResearchBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- ResearchBot
- Pattern
ResearchBot- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/error/404?404;https://www.kaust.edu.sa:443/bot
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
StateOfPlay-ResearchBot/1.0
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ResearchBot:
User-agent: ResearchBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ResearchBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ResearchBot") {
return 403;
}
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