psbot

search-engine 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%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: psbot
2026-05-012026-06-041.8%

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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