Scrapy

http-library Scrapy

Scrapy Python web crawler framework

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

3.5%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Scrapy
2026-05-012026-06-044.8%

Technical details

Name
Scrapy
Pattern
Scrapy
Tags
http-library
Reference
https://www.scrapy.org/
Added
2016/01/02
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Scrapy/1.0.3 (+http://scrapy.org)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Scrapy:

User-agent: Scrapy Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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