bnf.fr_bot

archiver bnf\.fr_bot

BNF French National Library web crawler

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.26%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: bnf.fr_bot
2026-05-012026-06-040.35%

Technical details

Name
bnf.fr_bot
Pattern
bnf\.fr_bot
Tags
archiver
Reference
https://www.bnf.fr/fr/capture-de-votre-site-web-par-le-robot-de-la-bnf
Added
2014/11/18
Instances
2 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bnf.fr_bot; +http://bibnum.bnf.fr/robot/bnf.html)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bnf.fr_bot; +http://www.bnf.fr/fr/outils/a.dl_web_capture_robot.html)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow bnf.fr_bot:

User-agent: bnf.fr_bot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "bnf\\.fr_bot") { return 403; }
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