librabot
Microsoft Academic librabot
About this crawler
librabot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern librabot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block librabot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- librabot
- Pattern
librabot- Tags
- academic
- Reference
- http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
librabot/2.0 (+http://academic.research.microsoft.com/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow librabot:
User-agent: librabot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} librabot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "librabot") {
return 403;
}
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