Overview
Awario Crawler Family is a crawler associated with Awario, used for historical or broad matching of Awario crawler traffic.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Awario; related patterns include AwarioBot, AwarioSmartBot, AwarioRssBot; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AwarioBot/1.0; +https://awario.com/bots.html).
Awario Crawler Family is unverified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Documented. This legacy identity is retained for historical log matching.
Awario Crawler Family is documented or strongly corroborated as honoring robots.txt directives.
Awario now publishes bot-specific identities for AwarioSmartBot and AwarioRssBot. The broader Awario token remains useful when matching older logs and noncanonical variants.
Treat the user-agent as an identity claim. Corroborate it with operator-controlled IP ranges, reverse DNS, signed-request evidence, or current documentation when available.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Awario - Aliases
- AwarioBot, AwarioSmartBot, AwarioRssBot
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AwarioBot/1.0; +https://awario.com/bots.html) - Robots Token
- AwarioSmartBot
- Identity Type
- Documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `Awario` and corroborate the request with current Awario documentation, operator-controlled network data, reverse DNS, or signed-request evidence when available.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Awario
- Purpose
- Legacy family matching
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- historical or broad matching of Awario crawler traffic
- Detection Notes
- Detect primarily by `Awario`; related patterns include `AwarioBot, AwarioSmartBot, AwarioRssBot`; representative HTTP user-agent: `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AwarioBot/1.0; +https://awario.com/bots.html)`. User-agent strings can be copied, so corroborate with stronger evidence before granting trust.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- Awario Crawler Family has high spoofing risk because its user-agent can be copied and the current evidence is observation-based; do not trust it by name alone.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Monitor
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: AwarioSmartBot Disallow: / - Apache Rule
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Awario" [NC] RewriteRule ^ - [F,L] - Nginx Rule
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if ($http_user_agent ~* "Awario") { return 403; }
Relationships
- Operator
- Awario Checked 2026-08-02
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.