bitlybot
Bit.ly web crawler for link tracking
About this crawler
bitlybot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern bitlybot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block bitlybot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- bitlybot
- Pattern
bitlybot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://bitly.com/
- Added
- 2018/06/27
- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
bitlybot/3.0 (+http://bit.ly/)
bitlybot/2.0
bitlybot
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow bitlybot:
User-agent: bitlybot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} bitlybot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "bitlybot") {
return 403;
}
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