magpie-crawler

seo magpie-crawler

Brandwatch magpie web crawler bot

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

2.1%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: magpie-crawler
2026-05-012026-06-042.9%

Technical details

Name
magpie-crawler
Pattern
magpie-crawler
Tags
seo
Reference
https://www.brandwatch.com/
Added
2018/03/27
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

magpie-crawler/1.1 (U; Linux amd64; en-GB; +http://www.brandwatch.net)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow magpie-crawler:

User-agent: magpie-crawler Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "magpie-crawler") { return 403; }
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