mithril-crawler

academic mithril-crawler

Academic search engine project web indexing crawler bot

About this crawler

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

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Technical details

Name
mithril-crawler
Pattern
mithril-crawler
Tags
academic
Reference
https://498-search-engine.github.io/website/
Added
2026/04/26
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

mithril-crawler

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow mithril-crawler:

User-agent: mithril-crawler Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "mithril-crawler") { return 403; }
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