stepstoneCrawlBot
Stepstone Group job search crawler
About this crawler
stepstoneCrawlBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern stepstoneCrawlBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block stepstoneCrawlBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- stepstoneCrawlBot
- Pattern
stepstoneCrawlBot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://www.thestepstonegroup.com/english/crawler/
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; stepstoneCrawlBot; +https://www.thestepstonegroup.com/crawler/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow stepstoneCrawlBot:
User-agent: stepstoneCrawlBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} stepstoneCrawlBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "stepstoneCrawlBot") {
return 403;
}
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