Stripe
Payment processor crawler verifying merchant sites and collecting metadata signals
About this crawler
Stripe is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Stripe\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Stripe traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Stripe
- Pattern
Stripe\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://docs.stripe.com/webhooks
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- rDNS suffixes
.stripe.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Stripe with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.stripe.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Stripe/1.0 (+https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Stripe:
User-agent: Stripe
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Stripe\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Stripe\\/") {
return 403;
}
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