silk
Silk slider service
About this crawler
silk is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern silk in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block silk traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.061%
Technical details
- Name
- silk
- Pattern
silk- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- http://www.slider.com/silk.htm
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
silk/1.0 (+http://www.slider.com/silk.htm)/3.7
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow silk:
User-agent: silk
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} silk [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "silk") {
return 403;
}
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