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magpie-crawler

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magpie-crawler is Brandwatch's web crawler. It downloads publicly available blog, forum, news, and social-media pages to be indexed and analysed by Brandwatch's social-listening platform. It respects robots.txt.

Operated by Brandwatch · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexmagpie-crawler
  • observedmagpie-crawler/1.1 (U; Linux amd64; en-GB; +http://www.brandwatch.net)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Operator publishes no verification path

  • Respects robots.txt

    Service traffic you configured — robots.txt does not apply

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.