discobot
Discovery Engine web crawler for content discovery
About this crawler
discobot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern discobot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block discobot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.59%
Technical details
- Name
- discobot
- Pattern
discobot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://discoveryengine.com/discobot.html
- Added
- 2011/05/03
- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; discobot/1.0; +http://discoveryengine.com/discobot.html)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; discobot/2.0; +http://discoveryengine.com/discobot.html)
mozilla/5.0 (compatible; discobot/1.1; +http://discoveryengine.com/discobot.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow discobot:
User-agent: discobot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} discobot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "discobot") {
return 403;
}
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