node-urllib

http-library node-urllib

Node urllib HTTP client

About this crawler

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

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Technical details

Name
node-urllib
Pattern
node-urllib
Tags
http-library
Reference
https://github.com/node-modules/urllib
Added
2026/05/09
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

node-urllib/2.25.3 Node.js/6.12.2 (Linux 4.4; x64)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow node-urllib:

User-agent: node-urllib Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "node-urllib") { return 403; }
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