Slack-ImgProxy
Slack's image proxy web crawler bot
About this crawler
Slack-ImgProxy is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Slack-ImgProxy in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Slack-ImgProxy traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Slack-ImgProxy
- Pattern
Slack-ImgProxy- Tags
- social-preview
- Reference
- https://api.slack.com/robots
- Added
- 2016/04/25
- rDNS suffixes
.slack-edge.com,.slack.com- Instances
- 6 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Slack-ImgProxy with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.slack-edge.com.slack.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Slack-ImgProxy (+https://api.slack.com/robots)
Slack-ImgProxy 0.59 (+https://api.slack.com/robots)
Slack-ImgProxy 0.66 (+https://api.slack.com/robots)
Slack-ImgProxy 1.106 (+https://api.slack.com/robots)
Slack-ImgProxy 1.138 (+https://api.slack.com/robots)
Slack-ImgProxy 149 (+https://api.slack.com/robots)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Slack-ImgProxy:
User-agent: Slack-ImgProxy
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Slack-ImgProxy [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Slack-ImgProxy") {
return 403;
}
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