imbot
Internet Memory archiving bot
About this crawler
imbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern imbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as archiver. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block imbot 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
- imbot
- Pattern
imbot- Tags
- archiver
- Reference
- http://internetmemory.org/en/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; imbot/0.1 +http://internetmemory.org/en/
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; imbot/0.1 +http://internetmemory.org/en/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow imbot:
User-agent: imbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} imbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "imbot") {
return 403;
}
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