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python-requests

http-library python-requests

Popular Python HTTP library for making web requests

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.20%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: python-requests
2026-05-012026-06-040.23%

Technical details

Name
python-requests
Pattern
python-requests
Tags
http-library
Added
2018/05/27
Instances
7 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

python-requests/2.9.2
python-requests/2.11.1
python-requests/2.18.4
python-requests/2.19.1
python-requests/2.20.0
python-requests/2.21.0
python-requests/2.22.0

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow python-requests:

User-agent: python-requests Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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