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exabot

search-engine exabot

Exabot search engine web crawler for indexing

About this crawler

exabot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern exabot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block exabot 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: exabot
2026-05-012026-06-040.15%

Technical details

Name
exabot
Pattern
exabot
Tags
search-engine
Instances
5 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Exabot PyExalead/3.0; +http://www.exabot.com/go/robot)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Exabot-Images/3.0; +http://www.exabot.com/go/robot)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Exabot/3.0 (BiggerBetter); +http://www.exabot.com/go/robot)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Exabot/3.0; +http://www.exabot.com/go/robot)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Exabot/3.0; http://www.exabot.com/go/robot)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow exabot:

User-agent: exabot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} exabot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "exabot") { return 403; }
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