SemanticScholarBot
Semantic Scholar web crawler for academic content
About this crawler
SemanticScholarBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern SemanticScholarBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block SemanticScholarBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- SemanticScholarBot
- Pattern
SemanticScholarBot- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- https://www.semanticscholar.org/crawler
- Added
- 2015/03/28
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
SemanticScholarBot/1.0 (+http://s2.allenai.org/bot.html)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible) SemanticScholarBot (+https://www.semanticscholar.org/crawler)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow SemanticScholarBot:
User-agent: SemanticScholarBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SemanticScholarBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "SemanticScholarBot") {
return 403;
}
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