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Rakuten Viber bots and crawlers
Rakuten Viber runs the Viber messaging app.
Rakuten Viber bots at a glance
- Rakuten Viber runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Social and Messaging Previews.
- Each Rakuten Viber bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.viber.com
Every Rakuten Viber bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viber | Social and Messaging Previews | Link previewReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Rakuten Viber bots
The rules below name every Rakuten Viber token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Rakuten Viber bots
User-agent: Viber
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Rakuten Viber bots
User-agent: Viber
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Rakuten Viber bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Viber
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Rakuten Viber bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Viber)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Rakuten Viber bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Viber) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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