MgidBot
Native advertising platform crawler analyzing pages for targeting
About this crawler
MgidBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern MgidBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block MgidBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- MgidBot
- Pattern
MgidBot- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- https://www.mgid.com
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
MgidBot 1.0
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow MgidBot:
User-agent: MgidBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MgidBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "MgidBot") {
return 403;
}
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