TerraCotta
Ceramic Network decentralized data indexing and crawling bot
About this crawler
TerraCotta is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern TerraCotta in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-crawler. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block TerraCotta traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.59%
Technical details
- Name
- TerraCotta
- Pattern
TerraCotta- Tags
- ai-crawler
- Reference
- https://github.com/CeramicTeam/CeramicTerracotta
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
TerraCotta https://github.com/CeramicTeam/CeramicTerracotta
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow TerraCotta:
User-agent: TerraCotta
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} TerraCotta [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "TerraCotta") {
return 403;
}
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