ev-crawler

seo ev-crawler\/

Headline web crawler for content discovery

About this crawler

ev-crawler is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ev-crawler\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ev-crawler traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: ev-crawler
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
ev-crawler
Pattern
ev-crawler\/
Tags
seo
Reference
https://headline.com/legal/crawler
Added
2023/08/16
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ev-crawler/1.0; +https://headline.com/legal/crawler)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow ev-crawler:

User-agent: ev-crawler Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ev-crawler\/ [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "ev-crawler\\/") { return 403; }
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