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