outbrain
Outbrain web crawler for content discovery
About this crawler
outbrain is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern outbrain in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block outbrain traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- outbrain
- Pattern
outbrain- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- https://www.outbrain.com/help/advertisers/invalid-url/
- Added
- 2018/10/14
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Java) outbrain
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow outbrain:
User-agent: outbrain
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} outbrain [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "outbrain") {
return 403;
}
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