SnapchatAds
Advertising platform crawler for ad verification
About this crawler
SnapchatAds is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern SnapchatAds\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block SnapchatAds traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- SnapchatAds
- Pattern
SnapchatAds\/- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- https://businesshelp.snapchat.com/s/article/adsbot-crawler?language=en_US
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SnapchatAds/1.0; +https://businesshelp.snapchat.com/s/article/adsbot-crawler)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow SnapchatAds:
User-agent: SnapchatAds
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SnapchatAds\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "SnapchatAds\\/") {
return 403;
}
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