WellKnownBot
WellKnown web crawler for discovery
About this crawler
WellKnownBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern WellKnownBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block WellKnownBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- WellKnownBot
- Pattern
WellKnownBot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://well-known.dev/about/#bot)
- Added
- 2023/08/29
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; WellKnownBot/0.1; +https://well-known.dev/about/#bot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow WellKnownBot:
User-agent: WellKnownBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WellKnownBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "WellKnownBot") {
return 403;
}
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