sitebot
Sitebot web crawler for site analysis
About this crawler
sitebot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern sitebot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block sitebot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.33%
Technical details
- Name
- sitebot
- Pattern
sitebot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- http://www.sitebot.org
- Added
- 2010/12/15
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Whoiswebsitebot/0.1; +http://www.whoiswebsite.net)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow sitebot:
User-agent: sitebot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} sitebot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "sitebot") {
return 403;
}
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