StartpagePrivateImageProxy
Privacy-focused search engine crawler indexing pages
About this crawler
StartpagePrivateImageProxy is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern StartpagePrivateImageProxy\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block StartpagePrivateImageProxy traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- StartpagePrivateImageProxy
- Pattern
StartpagePrivateImageProxy\/- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://datadome.co/bots/startpage-bot/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
StartpagePrivateImageProxy/2.0 (https://www.startpage.com/; [email protected]) requests/2.25.1
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow StartpagePrivateImageProxy:
User-agent: StartpagePrivateImageProxy
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} StartpagePrivateImageProxy\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "StartpagePrivateImageProxy\\/") {
return 403;
}
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