php-requests

http-library php-requests

PHP Requests HTTP library

About this crawler

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

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Technical details

Name
php-requests
Pattern
php-requests
Tags
http-library
Reference
https://github.com/rmccue/Requests
Added
2026/05/09
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

php-requests/1.7

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow php-requests:

User-agent: php-requests Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "php-requests") { return 403; }
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