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botify
Botify SEO tool web crawler for analysis
About this crawler
botify is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern botify in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block botify traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- botify
- Pattern
botify- Tags
- seo
- Added
- 2018/02/01
- rDNS suffixes
.botify.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely botify with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.botify.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; botify; http://botify.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow botify:
User-agent: botify
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} botify [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "botify") {
return 403;
}
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