Scrutiny
Peacock Media Scrutiny SEO tool
About this crawler
Scrutiny is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Scrutiny in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Scrutiny traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Scrutiny
- Pattern
Scrutiny- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://peacockmedia.software/mac/scrutiny/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Scrutiny/8; +https://peacockmedia.software/mac/scrutiny/
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Scrutiny:
User-agent: Scrutiny
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Scrutiny [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Scrutiny") {
return 403;
}
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