ShowyouBot
Showyou visual content bot
About this crawler
ShowyouBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ShowyouBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ShowyouBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.060%
Technical details
- Name
- ShowyouBot
- Pattern
ShowyouBot- Tags
- social-preview
- Reference
- http://showyou.com/crawler
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
ShowyouBot (http://showyou.com/crawler)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ShowyouBot:
User-agent: ShowyouBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ShowyouBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ShowyouBot") {
return 403;
}
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