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Valve/Steam
Steam web crawler for link previews
About this crawler
Valve/Steam is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Valve\/Steam in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Valve/Steam traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- Valve/Steam
- Pattern
Valve\/Steam- Tags
- social-preview
- Added
- 2023/05/24
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Valve/Steam HTTP Client 1.0 (SteamChatURLLookup)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Valve/Steam:
User-agent: Valve/Steam
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Valve\/Steam [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Valve\\/Steam") {
return 403;
}
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