g2reader-bot

feed-reader g2reader-bot

G2Reader web crawler for content discovery

About this crawler

g2reader-bot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern g2reader-bot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block g2reader-bot 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: g2reader-bot
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
g2reader-bot
Pattern
g2reader-bot
Tags
feed-reader
Reference
https://www.g2reader.com/
Added
2018/06/27
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

g2reader-bot/1.0 (+http://www.g2reader.com/)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow g2reader-bot:

User-agent: g2reader-bot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} g2reader-bot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "g2reader-bot") { return 403; }
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