hawkReader
HawkReader feed parser
About this crawler
hawkReader is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern hawkReader in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block hawkReader 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
- hawkReader
- Pattern
hawkReader- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- http://www.hawkreader.com/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
hawkReader/0.9b (Feed Parser; http://www.hawkreader.com; Allow like Gecko)
hawkReader/1.8 (Link Parser; http://www.hawkreader.com/; Allow like Gecko) Build/f2b2566
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow hawkReader:
User-agent: hawkReader
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} hawkReader [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "hawkReader") {
return 403;
}
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