RidderBot

seo RidderBot

Ridder web crawler for content discovery

About this crawler

RidderBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern RidderBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block RidderBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: RidderBot
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
RidderBot
Pattern
RidderBot
Tags
seo
Reference
https://ridder.co/
Added
2020/03/16
Instances
2 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; RidderBot/1.0; [email protected])
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; RidderBot/1.0; [email protected]) (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_4_1 like Mac OS X) Mobile/12H321

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow RidderBot:

User-agent: RidderBot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} RidderBot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "RidderBot") { return 403; }
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