link-check
Link checker tool
About this crawler
link-check is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern link-check in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block link-check traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.33%
Technical details
- Name
- link-check
- Pattern
link-check- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://github.com/tcort/link-check
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
link-check/5.2.0
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow link-check:
User-agent: link-check
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} link-check [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "link-check") {
return 403;
}
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