WebNL
Web.nl search crawler
About this crawler
WebNL is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern WebNL in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block WebNL traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- WebNL
- Pattern
WebNL- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://www.web.nl/webmasters/spider.html
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; WebNL; +http://www.web.nl/webmasters/spider.html; [email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow WebNL:
User-agent: WebNL
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WebNL [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "WebNL") {
return 403;
}
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