WinWebBot
Balaena WinWebBot
About this crawler
WinWebBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern WinWebBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block WinWebBot 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
- WinWebBot
- Pattern
WinWebBot- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- http://www.balaena.com/winwebbot.html
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
WinWebBot/1.0; (Balaena Ltd, UK); http://www.balaena.com/winwebbot.html; [email protected];)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow WinWebBot:
User-agent: WinWebBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WinWebBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "WinWebBot") {
return 403;
}
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