Typhoeus
Typhoeus Ruby HTTP library
About this crawler
Typhoeus is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Typhoeus in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Typhoeus traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.26%
Technical details
- Name
- Typhoeus
- Pattern
Typhoeus- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- https://github.com/typhoeus/typhoeus
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Typhoeus - https://github.com/typhoeus/typhoeus
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Typhoeus:
User-agent: Typhoeus
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Typhoeus [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Typhoeus") {
return 403;
}
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