friendly-spider
Web crawler indexing content for search and data aggregation
About this crawler
friendly-spider is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern friendly-spider in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block friendly-spider traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- friendly-spider
- Pattern
friendly-spider- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://datadome.co/bots/friendly-spider/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
friendly-spider
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow friendly-spider:
User-agent: friendly-spider
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} friendly-spider [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "friendly-spider") {
return 403;
}
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