magpie-crawler

What is magpie-crawler?

About

Magpie-crawler indexes web content and social media posts for Brandwatch's social media monitoring and consumer intelligence platform to analyze brand mentions. You can see how often magpie-crawler visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

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.

Type

Detail

Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

Robots.txt

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.

How Do I Block magpie-crawler?

You can block magpie-crawler or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: magpie-crawler # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

References

• https://brandwatch.com/