psbot
PicSearch web crawler for image discovery
About this crawler
psbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern psbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block psbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
1.0%
Technical details
- Name
- psbot
- Pattern
psbot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://www.picsearch.com/bot.html
- Added
- 2014/03/31
- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
psbot-image (+http://www.picsearch.com/bot.html)
psbot-page (+http://www.picsearch.com/bot.html)
psbot/0.1 (+http://www.picsearch.com/bot.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow psbot:
User-agent: psbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} psbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "psbot") {
return 403;
}
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