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mediaboardbot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Mediaboard's web crawler (media monitoring) detects client mentions in online news and public content. Operated by Mediaboard.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is mediaboardbot?

mediaboardbot is a web crawler operated by Mediaboard. Mediaboard's web crawler (media monitoring) detects client mentions in online news and public content.

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

Identification

Bot name

mediaboardbot

Operator

Mediaboard

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

mediaboardbot crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Mediaboard as part of their monitoring and analytics infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow mediaboardbot

Block it

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

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

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows mediaboardbot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Mediaboard's documentation.