bulk-retrieval bot
Bulk content retrieval tool
About this crawler
bulk-retrieval bot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern bulk-retrieval bot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block bulk-retrieval bot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- bulk-retrieval bot
- Pattern
bulk-retrieval bot- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- http://varocarbas.com/bulk-retrieval_bot.php
- Added
- 2026/05/03
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
bulk-retrieval bot 1.0 – http://varocarbas.com/bulk-retrieval_bot.php
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow bulk-retrieval bot:
User-agent: bulk-retrieval bot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} bulk-retrieval bot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "bulk-retrieval bot") {
return 403;
}
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