What is MagiBot?

MagiBot is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by Peak Labs.

Bot name
MagiBot
Operator
Peak Labs
Type
Bot
Respects robots.txt
Not confirmed
robots.txt user agent
MagiBot
Signs requests (Web Bot Auth)
No

About MagiBot

MagiBot is owned by Peak Labs which focuses on the research and development of information extraction and retrieval technology to transform knowledge in natural language into immeasurable value.

Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.

MagiBot user agent

MagiBot identifies itself with this user agent string:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MagiBot/1.0.0; Matarael; +https://magi.com/bots)

Anyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.

How to block MagiBot in robots.txt

We have not confirmed whether MagiBot follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.

Block MagiBot from the whole site

User-agent: MagiBot
Disallow: /

Block MagiBot from some folders

User-agent: MagiBot
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /search

Allow MagiBot only on some folders

User-agent: MagiBot
Allow: /blog/
Disallow: /

Allow MagiBot and block other crawlers

User-agent: MagiBot
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Things to know

  • Each host needs its own file. Rules on www.example.com do not apply to shop.example.com.
  • A crawler obeys only the most specific group that names it. Once you add a User-agent: MagiBot group, MagiBot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.
  • The user agent name is not case sensitive. We take MagiBot from MagiBot's user agent; check Peak Labs's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.
  • Crawlers cache robots.txt, so changes can take up to a day to apply. Disallow stops crawling but does not remove pages already collected or indexed.

Limits of robots.txt

  1. MagiBot may not follow the rule. robots.txt is a request that nothing enforces, and we have not confirmed that MagiBot follows it. Check your logs after adding a rule.
  2. The user agent could be fake. robots.txt matches the name a request claims. Anyone can send MagiBot's user agent, and a scraper using it is not bound by Peak Labs's robots.txt policy. Only checking the source network tells a real MagiBot from a fake one.

Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.

Who should care about MagiBot

Publishers

MagiBot brings search traffic, so keep the real one allowed. Fake MagiBot requests are a common cover for scrapers, so verify it by network rather than by name.

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Media buyers and advertisers

Search crawlers fetch landing pages to check them. Keep MagiBot allowed, but out of campaign and conversion data.

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E-commerce

MagiBot indexes products for search results. Allow it, and block impersonators that use its name to scrape prices.

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SaaS and APIs

Allow MagiBot on marketing and docs pages, and keep it off signed-in app pages it cannot use.

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Block MagiBot with Transfon Security

robots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows MagiBot by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.

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Control MagiBot on your site

  • See every MagiBot visit and the pages it reads
  • Spot bots that fake trusted crawler names
  • Block, allow or rate limit MagiBot with one rule
  • Works with or without robots.txt support

Frequently asked questions

What is MagiBot?

MagiBot is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by Peak Labs. MagiBot is owned by Peak Labs which focuses on the research and development of information extraction and retrieval technology to transform knowledge in natural language into immeasurable value.

Does MagiBot respect robots.txt?

We have not confirmed whether MagiBot follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.

How do I block MagiBot?

Add "User-agent: MagiBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "MagiBot" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.

Is robots.txt enough to block MagiBot?

No. robots.txt is voluntary, so MagiBot may not follow it, and anyone can send MagiBot's user agent, so a fake MagiBot ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.

Should I block MagiBot?

Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.

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