elefent
Web content crawler
About this crawler
elefent is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern elefent in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block elefent traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- elefent
- Pattern
elefent- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- http://crawler.elefent.net
- Added
- 2026/05/03
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
elefent/1.2 (web crawler; crawler.elefent.net; webmaster at elefent dot net)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow elefent:
User-agent: elefent
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} elefent [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "elefent") {
return 403;
}
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