SimplePie
SimplePie PHP feed parser web crawler
About this crawler
SimplePie is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern SimplePie in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block SimplePie traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- SimplePie
- Pattern
SimplePie- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- http://simplepie.org
- Added
- 2020/02/24
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
SimplePie/1.3-dev (Feed Parser; http://simplepie.org; Allow like Gecko)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow SimplePie:
User-agent: SimplePie
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SimplePie [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "SimplePie") {
return 403;
}
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