MADBbot
Web crawler gathering data for analytics and research purposes
About this crawler
MADBbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern MADBbot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block MADBbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- MADBbot
- Pattern
MADBbot\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://madb.zapto.org/bot.html
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
MADBbot/0.1 (Gathering webpages for data analytics; https://madb.zapto.org/bot.html; [email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow MADBbot:
User-agent: MADBbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MADBbot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "MADBbot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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