s4a-probe-bot

seo s4a-probe-bot\/

Web scraping and SEO analysis crawler tool

About this crawler

s4a-probe-bot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern s4a-probe-bot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block s4a-probe-bot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

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Technical details

Name
s4a-probe-bot
Pattern
s4a-probe-bot\/
Tags
seo
Reference
https://www.seo4ajax.com/webscraper/
Added
2026/04/17
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit (compatible; s4a-probe-bot/1.0; Fake-Googlebot; +https://www.seo4ajax.com/webscraper)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow s4a-probe-bot:

User-agent: s4a-probe-bot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} s4a-probe-bot\/ [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "s4a-probe-bot\\/") { return 403; }
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