The Drop Reaper

seo The Drop Reaper

Tag1 Consulting Drop Reaper crawler

About this crawler

The Drop Reaper is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern The Drop Reaper in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block The Drop Reaper traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: ATHENS
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
The Drop Reaper
Pattern
The Drop Reaper
Tags
seo
Reference
http://tag1consulting.com/dropreaper.html
Added
2026/05/09
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; The Drop Reaper; +http://tag1consulting.com/dropreaper.html)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow The Drop Reaper:

User-agent: The Drop Reaper Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} The Drop Reaper [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "The Drop Reaper") { return 403; }
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