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SWIMGBot

seo SWIMGBot

SWIMG web crawler for image discovery

About this crawler

SWIMGBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern SWIMGBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block SWIMGBot 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: SWIMGBot
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
SWIMGBot
Pattern
SWIMGBot
Tags
seo
Added
2018/06/28
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.101 Safari/537.36 SWIMGBot

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow SWIMGBot:

User-agent: SWIMGBot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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