Meta_Bot
Metadata extraction bot
About this crawler
Meta_Bot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Meta_Bot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Meta_Bot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- Meta_Bot
- Pattern
Meta_Bot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://www.webrobots.de/bot/meta_bot/
- Added
- 2026/05/03
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Linux x86_64; Meta_Bot/1.1)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Meta_Bot:
User-agent: Meta_Bot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Meta_Bot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Meta_Bot") {
return 403;
}
← back to all crawlers