htdig

search-engine htdig

ht://Dig search engine indexer

About this crawler

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

Technical details

Name
htdig
Pattern
htdig
Tags
search-engine
Reference
http://www.htdig.org/
Added
2026/05/09
Instances
6 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

htdig/3.1.5
htdig/3.1.5 ([email protected])
htdig/3.1.5 (root@localhost)
htdig/3.1.5 ([email protected])
htdig/3.1.6 ([email protected])
htdig/3.1.6 ([email protected])

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow htdig:

User-agent: htdig Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "htdig") { return 403; }
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