harsilbot
Web crawler indexing and collecting data for SEO analysis purposes
About this crawler
harsilbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern harsilbot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block harsilbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- harsilbot
- Pattern
harsilbot\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- http://www.harsil.com/bot
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 (compatible; harsilbot/1.1; +http://www.harsil.com/bot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow harsilbot:
User-agent: harsilbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} harsilbot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "harsilbot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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