changedetection
ChangeDetection web crawler for monitoring
About this crawler
changedetection is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern changedetection in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block changedetection traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- changedetection
- Pattern
changedetection- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://visualping.io
- Added
- 2013/09/13
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; http://www.changedetection.com/bot.html )
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow changedetection:
User-agent: changedetection
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} changedetection [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "changedetection") {
return 403;
}
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