Mediapartners-Google
Google's Mediapartners bot for AdSense and AdMob crawling
About this crawler
Mediapartners-Google is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Mediapartners-Google in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Mediapartners-Google traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.78%
Technical details
- Name
- Mediapartners-Google
- Pattern
Mediapartners-Google- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943?hl=en
- rDNS suffixes
.1e100.net,.googlebot.com,.googleusercontent.com- Instances
- 4 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Mediapartners-Google with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.1e100.net.googlebot.com.googleusercontent.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mediapartners-Google
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE or Firefox mutant; not on Windows server;) Daumoa/4.0 (Following Mediapartners-Google)
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 10_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/602.1.38 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14A5297c Safari/602.1 (compatible; Mediapartners-Google/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7 (compatible; Mediapartners-Google/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Mediapartners-Google:
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Mediapartners-Google [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Mediapartners-Google") {
return 403;
}
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