http-request
Node.js HTTP request library
About this crawler
http-request is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern http-request in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block http-request traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- http-request
- Pattern
http-request- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- http://git.io/tl_S2w
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
http-request/v0.7.0 (http://git.io/tl_S2w) node.js/v0.10.29
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow http-request:
User-agent: http-request
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} http-request [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "http-request") {
return 403;
}
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