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msrbot
Microsoft Research web crawler bot
About this crawler
msrbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern msrbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block msrbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- msrbot
- Pattern
msrbot- Tags
- search-engine
- Instances
- 0 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
no public sample user-agents recorded.
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow msrbot:
User-agent: msrbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} msrbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "msrbot") {
return 403;
}
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