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Wget
GNU Wget command-line tool for downloading web content
About this crawler
Wget is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern [wW]get in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Wget traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Wget
- Pattern
[wW]get- Tags
- http-library
- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
WGETbot/1.0 (+http://wget.alanreed.org)
Wget/1.14 (linux-gnu)
Wget/1.20.3 (linux-gnu)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Wget:
User-agent: Wget
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} [wW]get [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "[wW]get") {
return 403;
}
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