WebCapture
Website screenshot and page capture archiving tool crawler
About this crawler
WebCapture is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern WebCapture in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as archiver. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block WebCapture traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- WebCapture
- Pattern
WebCapture- Tags
- archiver
- Reference
- https://knownagents.com/agents/webcapture-2-0
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; WebCapture 2.0; Auto; Windows)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow WebCapture:
User-agent: WebCapture
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WebCapture [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "WebCapture") {
return 403;
}
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