MetaInspector

seo MetaInspector

MetaInspector web crawler for metadata

About this crawler

MetaInspector is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern MetaInspector in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block MetaInspector traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.46%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: MetaInspector
2026-05-012026-06-040.69%

Technical details

Name
MetaInspector
Pattern
MetaInspector
Tags
seo
Reference
https://github.com/jaimeiniesta/metainspector
Added
2023/09/08
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

MetaInspector/5.6.0 (+https://github.com/jaimeiniesta/metainspector)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow MetaInspector:

User-agent: MetaInspector Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MetaInspector [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "MetaInspector") { return 403; }
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