lwp-trivial
Perl LWP library simple HTTP client and fetcher
About this crawler
lwp-trivial is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern lwp-trivial in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block lwp-trivial traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.72%
Technical details
- Name
- lwp-trivial
- Pattern
lwp-trivial- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- https://metacpan.org/pod/LWP
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
lwp-trivial/1.35
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow lwp-trivial:
User-agent: lwp-trivial
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} lwp-trivial [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "lwp-trivial") {
return 403;
}
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