Zookabot
Zookabot search engine
About this crawler
Zookabot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Zookabot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Zookabot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Zookabot
- Pattern
Zookabot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://zookabot.com
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 5 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Zookabot/2.0;++http://zookabot.com
Zookabot/2.1;++http://zookabot.com
Zookabot/2.2;++http://zookabot.com
Zookabot/2.4;++http://zookabot.com
Zookabot/2.5;++http://zookabot.com
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Zookabot:
User-agent: Zookabot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Zookabot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Zookabot") {
return 403;
}
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