Spectate
Content monitoring and uptime checking crawler
About this crawler
Spectate is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Spectate\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Spectate 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
- Spectate
- Pattern
Spectate\/- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://docs.spectate.net/faq/uptime-monitor-bot
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Spectate/1.0 (+https://docs.spectate.net/faq/uptime-monitor-bot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Spectate:
User-agent: Spectate
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Spectate\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Spectate\\/") {
return 403;
}
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