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WebFetch
WebFetch HTTP client
About this crawler
WebFetch is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern WebFetch(?!\w) in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block WebFetch traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.26%
Technical details
- Name
- WebFetch
- Pattern
WebFetch(?!\w)- Tags
- http-library
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
WebFetch
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow WebFetch:
User-agent: WebFetch
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WebFetch(?!\w) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "WebFetch(?!\\w)") {
return 403;
}
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