MuckRack
MuckRack journalist database web crawler
About this crawler
MuckRack is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern MuckRack in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block MuckRack traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.20%
Technical details
- Name
- MuckRack
- Pattern
MuckRack- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://muckrack.com/
- Added
- 2017/11/02
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MuckRack/1.0; +http://muckrack.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow MuckRack:
User-agent: MuckRack
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MuckRack [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "MuckRack") {
return 403;
}
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