WebsiteOps
Web crawling client monitoring uptime changes and analyzing website data
About this crawler
WebsiteOps is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern WebsiteOps in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block WebsiteOps traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- WebsiteOps
- Pattern
WebsiteOps- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://faqs.watchful.net/technical-support/how-do-i-whitelist-the-watchful-ip-address
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
WebsiteOps ([email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow WebsiteOps:
User-agent: WebsiteOps
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WebsiteOps [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "WebsiteOps") {
return 403;
}
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