bluefish
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About this crawler
bluefish is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern bluefish in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block bluefish traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- bluefish
- Pattern
bluefish- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
bluefish 0.6 HTML editor
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow bluefish:
User-agent: bluefish
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} bluefish [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "bluefish") {
return 403;
}
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