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MirrorWebCrawler

Name: MirrorWebCrawler
Author: MirrorWeb Ltd

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

We are a commercial web archiving supplier providing archival solutions for the financial and public sector. Operated by MirrorWeb Ltd.

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Assessment

Aggregator

What is MirrorWebCrawler?

MirrorWebCrawler is a web crawler operated by MirrorWeb Ltd. We are a commercial web archiving supplier providing archival solutions for the financial and public sector.

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

Identification

Bot name

MirrorWebCrawler

Operator

MirrorWeb Ltd

Why it crawls your site

MirrorWebCrawler crawls websites to aggregate content from multiple sources. It is operated by MirrorWeb Ltd as part of their content aggregation infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow MirrorWebCrawler

Block it

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

# Allow MirrorWebCrawler full access
User-agent: mirrorweb
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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