Taboolabot

advertising Taboolabot

Taboola web crawler for content discovery

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.13%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Taboolabot
2026-05-012026-06-040.17%

Technical details

Name
Taboolabot
Pattern
Taboolabot
Tags
advertising
Reference
https://www.taboola.com/
Added
2020/03/16
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Taboolabot/3.7; +http://www.taboola.com)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Taboolabot:

User-agent: Taboolabot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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