Verity
Contextual advertising crawler analyzing page content for brand safety
About this crawler
Verity is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Verity\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Verity traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Verity
- Pattern
Verity\/- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- https://gumgum.com/contextual
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Verity/1.1 (https://gumgum.com/verity; [email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Verity:
User-agent: Verity
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Verity\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Verity\\/") {
return 403;
}
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