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ips-agent

seo ips-agent

IPS agent web crawler for content indexing

About this crawler

ips-agent is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ips-agent in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ips-agent traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.26%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: ips-agent
2026-05-012026-06-040.43%

Technical details

Name
ips-agent
Pattern
ips-agent
Tags
seo
Instances
5 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

BlackBerry9000/4.6.0.167 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102 ips-agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12; ips-agent) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3; ips-agent) Gecko/20090824 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/3.5.3
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24; ips-agent) Gecko/20111107 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.24
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:14.0; ips-agent) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow ips-agent:

User-agent: ips-agent Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "ips-agent") { return 403; }
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