SQWatcher
Software quality compliance monitoring and testing crawler bot
About this crawler
SQWatcher is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern SQWatcher in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block SQWatcher traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- SQWatcher
- Pattern
SQWatcher- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- http://sqcompliance.com/sqwatcher.html
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 SQWatcher/202312 (sqcompliance.com/sqwatcher.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow SQWatcher:
User-agent: SQWatcher
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SQWatcher [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "SQWatcher") {
return 403;
}
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