curl
cURL command-line tool for HTTP requests
About this crawler
curl is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ^curl in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block curl traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- curl
- Pattern
^curl- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- https://curl.se/
- Added
- 2019/08/15
- Instances
- 8 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
curl
curl/7.29.0
curl/7.47.0
curl/7.54.0
curl/7.55.1
curl/7.64.0
curl/7.64.1
curl/7.65.3
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow curl:
User-agent: curl
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^curl [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "^curl") {
return 403;
}
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