WARDBot
Web automation crawler extracting website data for reconnaissance and analysis
About this crawler
WARDBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern WARDBot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block WARDBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.46%
Technical details
- Name
- WARDBot
- Pattern
WARDBot\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://ward.ai/robot
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; WARDBot/1.0; http://ward.ai/robot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow WARDBot:
User-agent: WARDBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WARDBot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "WARDBot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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