Swiftbot
Swiftype site search engine indexing and crawling bot
About this crawler
Swiftbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Swiftbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Swiftbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.33%
Technical details
- Name
- Swiftbot
- Pattern
Swiftbot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://swiftype.com/swiftbot
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Swiftbot/1.0; UID/649dce5512ab734096a50277; +http://swiftype.com/swiftbot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Swiftbot:
User-agent: Swiftbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Swiftbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Swiftbot") {
return 403;
}
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