Swisscows
Privacy-focused search engine crawler without storing personal data
About this crawler
Swisscows is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Swisscows in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Swisscows traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Swisscows
- Pattern
Swisscows- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://swisscows.com/en
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Swisscows Favicons
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Swisscows:
User-agent: Swisscows
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Swisscows [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Swisscows") {
return 403;
}
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