ca-crawler
General purpose web crawler
About this crawler
ca-crawler is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ca-crawler in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ca-crawler traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.062%
Technical details
- Name
- ca-crawler
- Pattern
ca-crawler- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- https://www.webrobots.de/bot/ca-crawler/
- Added
- 2026/05/03
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ca-crawler/1.0)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ca-crawler:
User-agent: ca-crawler
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ca-crawler [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ca-crawler") {
return 403;
}
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