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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%
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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