WinWebBot

http-library 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.

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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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