sogou spider

search-engine sogou spider

Sogou Chinese search spider

About this crawler

sogou spider is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern sogou spider in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block sogou spider traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.52%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: sogou spider
2026-05-012026-06-040.75%

Technical details

Name
sogou spider
Pattern
sogou spider
Tags
search-engine
Reference
http://www.sogou.com
Added
2026/05/09
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

sogou spider

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow sogou spider:

User-agent: sogou spider Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} sogou spider [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "sogou spider") { return 403; }
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