fastbot crawler

http-library fastbot crawler

FastBot crawler

About this crawler

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

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Technical details

Name
fastbot crawler
Pattern
fastbot crawler
Tags
http-library
Reference
http://www.fastbot.de
Added
2026/05/09
Instances
2 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

fastbot crawler beta 2.0 (+http://www.fastbot.de)
fastbot crawler beta 4.0 (+http://www.fastbot.de)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow fastbot crawler:

User-agent: fastbot crawler Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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