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Metawatch
GoodBotVerifiedBOTIPTC research crawler measuring whether news sites preserve photo metadata. Monthly, small samples, no AI training.
Identification
Bot name
Metawatch
Category
Monitoring & Analytics
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
metawatch
Block or allow Metawatch
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for Metawatch in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block Metawatch from crawling your entire site User-agent: Metawatch Disallow: / # Allow Metawatch full access User-agent: Metawatch Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows Metawatch. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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Last updated October 25, 2026
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