ZanistaBot
Zanista's AI search crawler
About this crawler
ZanistaBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ZanistaBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-crawler. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ZanistaBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.26%
Technical details
- Name
- ZanistaBot
- Pattern
ZanistaBot- Tags
- ai-crawler
- Reference
- https://zanista.ai/crawler-info
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ZanistaBot/1.0; +https://zanista.ai/crawler-info) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ZanistaBot:
User-agent: ZanistaBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ZanistaBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ZanistaBot") {
return 403;
}
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