scanbot
Dazzlepod IP scanner bot
About this crawler
scanbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern scanbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block scanbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.33%
Technical details
- Name
- scanbot
- Pattern
scanbot- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- http://dazzlepod.com/ip/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; scanbot/1.0; +http://dazzlepod.com/ip/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow scanbot:
User-agent: scanbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} scanbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "scanbot") {
return 403;
}
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