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arabot

search-engine arabot

Arabot web crawler for content discovery

About this crawler

arabot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern arabot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block arabot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: arabot
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
arabot
Pattern
arabot
Tags
search-engine
Added
2013/10/09
Instances
0 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

no public sample user-agents recorded.

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow arabot:

User-agent: arabot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} arabot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "arabot") { return 403; }
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