spbot

seo spbot

SEO Profiler web crawler for analysis

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.72%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: spbot
2026-05-012026-06-041.0%

Technical details

Name
spbot
Pattern
spbot
Tags
seo
Reference
https://seoprofiler.com
Added
2010/07/31
Instances
34 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/1.0; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot/ )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/1.1; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot/ )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/1.2; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot/ )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/2.0.1; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot/ )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/2.0.2; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot/ )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/2.0.3; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot/ )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/2.0.4; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/2.0; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot/ )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/2.1; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/3.0; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/3.1; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/4.0.1; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/4.0.2; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/4.0.3; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/4.0.4; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/4.0.5; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/4.0.6; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/4.0.7; +http://OpenLinkProfiler.org/bot )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/4.0.7; +https://www.seoprofiler.com/bot )
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/4.0.8; +http://OpenLinkProfiler.org/bot )

+ 14 more samples in crawlers.json

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow spbot:

User-agent: spbot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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