akula
Akula academic crawler
About this crawler
akula is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern akula in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block akula traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- akula
- Pattern
akula- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- http://k311.fd.cvut.cz/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; akula/12.0rc-2; +http://k311.fd.cvut.cz/)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; akula/k311; +http://k311.fd.cvut.cz/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow akula:
User-agent: akula
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} akula [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "akula") {
return 403;
}
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