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Mastodon
Mastodon social network web crawler bot
About this crawler
Mastodon is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Mastodon in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Mastodon traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Mastodon
- Pattern
Mastodon- Tags
- social-preview
- Added
- 2017/11/02
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
http.rb/2.2.2 (Mastodon/1.5.1; +https://example-masto-instance.org/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Mastodon:
User-agent: Mastodon
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Mastodon [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Mastodon") {
return 403;
}
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