Topicbot
Topicbot web crawler
About this crawler
Topicbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Topicbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Topicbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- Topicbot
- Pattern
Topicbot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://topicbot.awardspace.us/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Topicbot/12.0rc-2; +http://topicbot.awardspace.us/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Topicbot:
User-agent: Topicbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Topicbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Topicbot") {
return 403;
}
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