magpie-crawler

Last updated 14 hours ago.

What is magpie-crawler?

About

magpie-crawler is an intelligence gatherer operated by Brandwatch. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.

Track magpie-crawler Visiting Your Website
You can see when magpie-crawler visits your website using the API or WordPress plugin.

Detail

Operator Brandwatch
Documentation https://brandwatch.com/legal/magpie-crawler/

Type

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

Expected Behavior

The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.

Insights

magpie-crawler's Activity on Your Website

Half of your traffic probably comes from artificial agents, and there are more of them every day. Track their activity with the API or WordPress plugin.

Set Up Agent Analytics

Other Websites

6%
of top websites are currently blocking magpie-crawler in some way
Learn How →

Access Control

Should I Block magpie-crawler?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token Description
magpie-crawler Should match instances of magpie-crawler

You can block magpie-crawler or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This should block magpie-crawler

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt