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mbot
MBot crawler
About this crawler
mbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern mbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block mbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- mbot
- Pattern
mbot- Tags
- http-library
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
mbot v.1.16
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow mbot:
User-agent: mbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} mbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "mbot") {
return 403;
}
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