urlfan-bot
URLFan link tracking bot
About this crawler
urlfan-bot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern urlfan-bot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block urlfan-bot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- urlfan-bot
- Pattern
urlfan-bot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- http://www.urlfan.com/site/bot/350.html
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
urlfan-bot/1.0; +http://www.urlfan.com/site/bot/350.html
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow urlfan-bot:
User-agent: urlfan-bot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} urlfan-bot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "urlfan-bot") {
return 403;
}
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