$bot_category

The $bot_category variable indicates the category of a bot making the request.

Type

string

Possible values

• search_engine
• ai_crawler
• crawler
• monitoring
• scraper

Example

location / {
    if ($is_bot) {
        set $cache_key "bot:$bot_category:$request_uri";
        proxy_set_header X-Bot-Category $bot_category;
    }
    proxy_cache_key $cache_key;
    proxy_pass http://backend;
}