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mediaboardbot

Name: mediaboardbot
Author: Mediaboard

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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

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.