StormCrawler
Storm Crawler open source framework
About this crawler
StormCrawler is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern StormCrawler in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block StormCrawler traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- StormCrawler
- Pattern
StormCrawler- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- https://github.com/DigitalPebble/storm-crawler
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
StormCrawler/1.0 (a Storm-based crawler; https://github.com/DigitalPebble/storm-crawler; [email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow StormCrawler:
User-agent: StormCrawler
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} StormCrawler [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "StormCrawler") {
return 403;
}
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