MediaMonitoringBot
OSINT crawler harvesting mentions from news blogs and forums
About this crawler
MediaMonitoringBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern MediaMonitoringBot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block MediaMonitoringBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- MediaMonitoringBot
- Pattern
MediaMonitoringBot\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://mediamonitoringbot.com/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
MediaMonitoringBot/1.1 (+https://mediamonitoringbot.com/crawler; [email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow MediaMonitoringBot:
User-agent: MediaMonitoringBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MediaMonitoringBot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "MediaMonitoringBot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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