ShapBot
Parallel's AI agent web context provider
About this crawler
ShapBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ShapBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-crawler. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ShapBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.59%
Technical details
- Name
- ShapBot
- Pattern
ShapBot- Tags
- ai-crawler
- Reference
- https://docs.parallel.ai/resources/crawler
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ShapBot/0.1.0
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ShapBot:
User-agent: ShapBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ShapBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ShapBot") {
return 403;
}
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