UGAResearchAgent
University of Georgia academic network research crawler bot
About this crawler
UGAResearchAgent is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern UGAResearchAgent in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block UGAResearchAgent traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- UGAResearchAgent
- Pattern
UGAResearchAgent- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- https://nislabuga-scan.uga.edu/
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; UGAResearchAgent/1.0; Please visit: NISLabUGA.github.io)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow UGAResearchAgent:
User-agent: UGAResearchAgent
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} UGAResearchAgent [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "UGAResearchAgent") {
return 403;
}
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