Turnitin
Turnitin plagiarism detection web crawler
About this crawler
Turnitin is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Turnitin in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Turnitin traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.26%
Technical details
- Name
- Turnitin
- Pattern
Turnitin- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- http://www.turnitin.com
- Added
- 2010/09/26
- rDNS suffixes
.turnitin.com- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Turnitin with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.turnitin.com
Sample User-Agent strings
TurnitinBot (https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html)
Turnitin (https://bit.ly/2UvnfoQ)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Turnitin:
User-agent: Turnitin
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Turnitin [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Turnitin") {
return 403;
}
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