Mediapartners Googlebot
Google's Mediapartners bot variant for AdSense and AdMob crawling
About this crawler
Mediapartners Googlebot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Mediapartners \(Googlebot\) in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Mediapartners Googlebot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.78%
Technical details
- Name
- Mediapartners Googlebot
- Pattern
Mediapartners \(Googlebot\)- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943?hl=en
- Added
- 2017/08/08
- Instances
- 0 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
no public sample user-agents recorded.
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Mediapartners Googlebot:
User-agent: Mediapartners Googlebot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Mediapartners \(Googlebot\) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Mediapartners \\(Googlebot\\)") {
return 403;
}
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