VLC
VLC media player
About this crawler
VLC is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern VLC in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block VLC traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- VLC
- Pattern
VLC- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
VLC/2.2.4 LibVLC/2.2.4
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow VLC:
User-agent: VLC
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} VLC [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "VLC") {
return 403;
}
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