Xing Bot
Xing professional network link preview and content crawler
About this crawler
Xing Bot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Xing Bot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Xing Bot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Xing Bot
- Pattern
Xing Bot- Tags
- social-preview
- Reference
- https://www.xing.com/
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Xing Bot
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Xing Bot:
User-agent: Xing Bot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Xing Bot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Xing Bot") {
return 403;
}
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