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Valve/Steam

social-preview 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.

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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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