MetaGeneratorCrawler
MetaGenerator SEO crawler
About this crawler
MetaGeneratorCrawler is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern MetaGeneratorCrawler\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block MetaGeneratorCrawler traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- MetaGeneratorCrawler
- Pattern
MetaGeneratorCrawler\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- http://www.metagenerator.info
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 7 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
MetaGeneratorCrawler/1.1 (www.metagenerator.info)
MetaGeneratorCrawler/1.3.12 (www.metagenerator.info)
MetaGeneratorCrawler/1.3.14 (www.metagenerator.info)
MetaGeneratorCrawler/1.3.2 (www.metagenerator.info)
MetaGeneratorCrawler/1.3.3 (www.metagenerator.info)
MetaGeneratorCrawler/1.3.4 (www.metagenerator.info)
MetaGeneratorCrawler/1.3.9 (www.metagenerator.info)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow MetaGeneratorCrawler:
User-agent: MetaGeneratorCrawler
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MetaGeneratorCrawler\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "MetaGeneratorCrawler\\/") {
return 403;
}
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