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