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focusbot
Focusbot crawler
About this crawler
focusbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern focusbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block focusbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- focusbot
- Pattern
focusbot- Tags
- http-library
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
focusbot/1.1
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow focusbot:
User-agent: focusbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} focusbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "focusbot") {
return 403;
}
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