Sonic
Sonic web crawler for ranking analysis
About this crawler
Sonic is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Sonic in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Sonic traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Sonic
- Pattern
Sonic- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://www.yama.info.waseda.ac.jp/~crawler/info.html
- Added
- 2016/02/08
- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; RankSonicSiteAuditor/1.0; +https://ranksonic.com/ranksonic_sab.html)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Sonic/1.0; http://www.yama.info.waseda.ac.jp/~crawler/info.html)
Mozzila/5.0 (compatible; Sonic/1.0; http://www.yama.info.waseda.ac.jp/~crawler/info.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Sonic:
User-agent: Sonic
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Sonic [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Sonic") {
return 403;
}
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