mlbot

Last updated about 5 hours ago.

Non-Compliant

What is mlbot?

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mlbot

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Did you find MLBot (www.metadatalabs.com/mlbot) in your logs?

If you've seen MLBot (www.metadatalabs.com/mlbot) in your website logs, it indicates that mlbot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.

MLBot (www.metadatalabs.com/mlbot)

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Expected Behavior

This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.

Should I Block mlbot?

This bot is marked as non-compliant, which may mean it doesn't respect robots.txt or engages in aggressive crawling behavior. You may want to consider blocking it if it's causing issues for your site.

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How Do I Block mlbot?

You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.

User Agent Tokens

mlbotShould match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block mlbot

User-agent: mlbot
Disallow: /

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