hgfAlphaXCrawl
University research crawler collecting data for academic projects
About this crawler
hgfAlphaXCrawl is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern hgfAlphaXCrawl\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block hgfAlphaXCrawl traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- hgfAlphaXCrawl
- Pattern
hgfAlphaXCrawl\/- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- https://datadome.co/bots/uni-passau_bot/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
hgfAlphaXCrawl/1.0 (+https://www.fim.uni-passau.de/data-science/forschung/open-search)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow hgfAlphaXCrawl:
User-agent: hgfAlphaXCrawl
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} hgfAlphaXCrawl\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "hgfAlphaXCrawl\\/") {
return 403;
}
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