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LegalMonster

Name: LegalMonster
Author: Legal Monster ApS

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Monitor customers' sites for compliance with cookie- and other privacy-related legislation Operated by Legal Monster ApS.

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Assessment

Security

What is LegalMonster?

LegalMonster is a web crawler operated by Legal Monster ApS. Monitor customers' sites for compliance with cookie- and other privacy-related legislation

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

LegalMonster

Operator

Legal Monster ApS

Why it crawls your site

LegalMonster crawls websites to scan for security vulnerabilities and potential threats. It is operated by Legal Monster ApS as part of their security infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow LegalMonster

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for LegalMonster 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 LegalMonster from crawling your entire site
User-agent: LegalMonster
Disallow: /

# Allow LegalMonster full access
User-agent: LegalMonster
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows LegalMonster. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Legal Monster ApS's documentation.