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botify

seo 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%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: botify
2026-05-012026-06-040.23%

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.

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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