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VKRobot
VK social network web crawler bot
About this crawler
VKRobot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern VKRobot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block VKRobot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- VKRobot
- Pattern
VKRobot- Tags
- social-preview
- Added
- 2020/03/16
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; VKRobot/1.0)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow VKRobot:
User-agent: VKRobot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} VKRobot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "VKRobot") {
return 403;
}
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