MRGbot

scanner MRGbot\/

Security testing lab crawler for anti-fraud control evaluation

About this crawler

MRGbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern MRGbot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block MRGbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

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Technical details

Name
MRGbot
Pattern
MRGbot\/
Tags
scanner
Reference
https://www.mrg.ro/
Added
2026/04/17
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MRGbot/1.0; +https://www.mrg.ro/bot.html)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow MRGbot:

User-agent: MRGbot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MRGbot\/ [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "MRGbot\\/") { return 403; }
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