SilktideBot
Web quality and accessibility auditing crawler bot
About this crawler
SilktideBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern SilktideBot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block SilktideBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- SilktideBot
- Pattern
SilktideBot\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://help.silktide.com/en/articles/4606146-silktidebot-our-site-scanning-bot
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SilktideBot/1.1; +https://help.silktide.com/en/articles/4606146-silktidebot-our-site-scanning-bot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow SilktideBot:
User-agent: SilktideBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SilktideBot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "SilktideBot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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