Metaspinner
Metaspinner search engine crawler
About this crawler
Metaspinner is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Metaspinner\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Metaspinner traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- Metaspinner
- Pattern
Metaspinner\/- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://www.meta-spinner.de/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Metaspinner/0.01 (Metaspinner; http://www.meta-spinner.de/; [email protected]/)
Metaspinner/1.0 (Metaspinner Search Engine; http://www.meta-spinner.de/; [email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Metaspinner:
User-agent: Metaspinner
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Metaspinner\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Metaspinner\\/") {
return 403;
}
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