Monibot

seo Monibot

Web crawler for competitive analysis and price monitoring

About this crawler

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

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Technical details

Name
Monibot
Pattern
Monibot
Tags
seo
Reference
https://datadome.co/bots/monibot/
Added
2026/04/17
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Monibot

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Monibot:

User-agent: Monibot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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