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%
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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