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%
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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