anonymous coward
Storm-based web crawler
About this crawler
anonymous coward is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern anonymous coward in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block anonymous coward traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- anonymous coward
- Pattern
anonymous coward- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- https://github.com/apache/stormcrawler
- Added
- 2026/05/03
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
anonymous coward/1.0 (a Storm-based crawler; https://github.com/DigitalPebble/storm-crawler; [email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow anonymous coward:
User-agent: anonymous coward
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} anonymous coward [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "anonymous coward") {
return 403;
}
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