MidasNetworkBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTCrawler to extract the newest articles in the publisher's website (via RSS feed URL) Operated by Midas Network d.o.o..
What is MidasNetworkBot?
MidasNetworkBot is operated by Midas Network d.o.o., a prominent native advertising platform based in Croatia. The bot functions as a content discovery and analysis tool that scans publisher websites to ensure that native advertising widgets are properly integrated and contextually relevant to the page content. By analyzing the text and structure of articles, it enables the Midas platform to serve targeted recommendations that blend seamlessly with the publisher's design.
Identification
MidasNetworkBotHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- How to handle AI crawlers that ignore robots.txt - LinkedIn
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- Control bots, spiders, and crawlers - DreamHost Knowledge Base
- robots.txt setting · Cloudflare bot solutions docs
- 20 Common Robots.txt Issues (and How to Avoid Them) - seoClarity
Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls websites to index content, which allows the Midas platform to match advertisements with appropriate articles across their network of over 300 major websites. This process ensures that the 'Midas widgets' are populated with relevant content, maintaining high engagement for advertisers and revenue for publishers. Website owners can verify the bot's activity by checking the provided documentation at midas-network.com and ensuring the user-agent matches the official string.
Block or allow MidasNetworkBot
Add a Disallow rule for MidasNetworkBot 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 MidasNetworkBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: MidasNetworkBot Disallow: / # Allow MidasNetworkBot full access User-agent: MidasNetworkBot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows MidasNetworkBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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