startmebot
Start.me web crawler for content discovery
About this crawler
startmebot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern startmebot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block startmebot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- startmebot
- Pattern
startmebot\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://support.start.me/en/articles/9182933-what-is-startmebot
- Added
- 2020/03/16
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; startmebot/1.0; +https://start.me/bot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow startmebot:
User-agent: startmebot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} startmebot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "startmebot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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