hCardValidator
Microformat validator checking hCard contact data on web pages
About this crawler
hCardValidator is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern hCardValidator in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block hCardValidator 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
- hCardValidator
- Pattern
hCardValidator- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- http://hcard.geekhood.net/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
hCardValidator/1 PHP/5 (http://hcard.geekhood.net)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow hCardValidator:
User-agent: hCardValidator
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} hCardValidator [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "hCardValidator") {
return 403;
}
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