moatbot
Moat web crawler for advertising analysis
About this crawler
moatbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern moatbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block moatbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- moatbot
- Pattern
moatbot- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- https://moat.com
- Added
- 2017/09/16
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.111 Safari/537.36 moatbot
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12A4345d Safari/600.1.4 moatbot
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow moatbot:
User-agent: moatbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} moatbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "moatbot") {
return 403;
}
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