request.js

http-library request.js

Request.js HTTP library

About this crawler

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

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Technical details

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

Sample User-Agent strings

request.js

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow request.js:

User-agent: request.js Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "request.js") { return 403; }
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