seekbot
Seekbot search engine web crawler for indexing
About this crawler
seekbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern seekbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block seekbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- seekbot
- Pattern
seekbot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://www.seekbot.net/bot.html
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Seekbot/1.0 (http://www.seekbot.net/bot.html) RobotsTxtFetcher/1.2
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow seekbot:
User-agent: seekbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} seekbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "seekbot") {
return 403;
}
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