Snapbot
Snap Shots screenshot service bot
About this crawler
Snapbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Snapbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-fetcher. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Snapbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.26%
Technical details
- Name
- Snapbot
- Pattern
Snapbot- Tags
- ai-fetcher
- Reference
- http://www.snap.com
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Snapbot/1.0 (Snap Shots, +http://www.snap.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Snapbot:
User-agent: Snapbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Snapbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Snapbot") {
return 403;
}
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