SmarshBot
Smarsh's compliance archiving bot
About this crawler
SmarshBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern SmarshBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as archiver. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block SmarshBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- SmarshBot
- Pattern
SmarshBot- Tags
- archiver
- Reference
- https://www.smarsh.com/smb/web-archive/
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
SmarshBot/1.0
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow SmarshBot:
User-agent: SmarshBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SmarshBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "SmarshBot") {
return 403;
}
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