MojeekBot: User Agent, robots.txt Rules & Safety Rating

Q: What is the official user-agent string for MojeekBot?

The official user-agent string for MojeekBot is: MojeekBot . This is the exact string you must use in robots.txt, Nginx, Apache, or Cloudflare firewall rules to target this bot. User-agent matching in robots.txt is case-insensitive, but the string must be spelled correctly. You can verify that a request genuinely comes from MojeekBot by performing a reverse-DNS lookup on the source IP - legitimate bots resolve back to their operator's domain.

Q: Is MojeekBot safe?

Yes, MojeekBot is a safe and legitimate crawler. It is operated by Mojeek, which publicly documents its crawler at an official URL and follows the Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309). The user-agent string MojeekBot is verifiable via reverse-DNS lookup on the crawling IP addresses. You can safely allow it unless you have a specific reason to block (e.g., AI training opt-out or SEO tool visibility).

Q: Will blocking MojeekBot hurt my SEO?

⛔ Critical Impact - Blocking MojeekBot will stop Mojeek from crawling and indexing your pages. Within days or weeks you may see pages drop out of Mojeek's search index entirely, resulting in a significant loss of organic search traffic. This is the most severe possible SEO consequence. Only do this intentionally, for example if you are migrating to a different search engine or decommissioning a domain. If you accidentally blocked MojeekBot, remove the rule immediately and request re-indexing via Mojeek's webmaster tools.

Q: How do I block MojeekBot in robots.txt?

Add the following lines to your /robots.txt file: User-agent: MojeekBot Disallow: / This instructs MojeekBot not to crawl any path on your site. The Disallow: / directive covers the entire domain including subfolders. To only block specific sections, replace / with the path (e.g., Disallow: /blog/ ). Note: robots.txt is publicly readable - any bot or human can inspect it at yourdomain.com/robots.txt .

Q: How do I verify if MojeekBot is crawling my site?

Search your web server access logs for the string MojeekBot (case-insensitive grep: grep -i "MojeekBot" /var/log/nginx/access.log ). You can also check Google Search Console → Coverage → Crawl Stats for Googlebot variants. For MojeekBot specifically, filter by user-agent in your log analysis tool (GoAccess, AWStats, etc.).

Quick Facts

User-Agent:: MojeekBot
Category:: Search Engines
Operator:: Mojeek
Safety:: Safe
Blocking Impact:: Critical - Blocking removes you from search results
SEO Impact Score:: 10/10
Official docs:: www.mojeek.com

Confirmed by the operator

Mojeek names MojeekBot on its own documentation page, linked above. The token, purpose and robots.txt behaviour on this profile come from that page, re-checked on October 19, 2026.

What is MojeekBot?

The specific user-agent string for Mojeek's web crawler.

The specific user-agent string for Mojeek's web crawler.
MojeekBot is a production-grade search engine crawler operated by Mojeek. It uses a distributed crawl infrastructure that respects crawl-delay directives, follows RFC 9309 (robots.txt) spec, and processes Sitemaps to prioritise fresh content. The user-agent string MojeekBot must be whitelisted if your site uses rate-limiting or WAF rules. Blocking impact is Critical - Blocking removes you from search results.

What happens if you block MojeekBot?

⛔ Critical Impact - Blocking MojeekBot will stop Mojeek from crawling and indexing your pages. Within days or weeks you may see pages drop out of Mojeek's search index entirely, resulting in a significant loss of organic search traffic. This is the most severe possible SEO consequence. Only do this intentionally, for example if you are migrating to a different search engine or decommissioning a domain. If you accidentally blocked MojeekBot, remove the rule immediately and request re-indexing via Mojeek's webmaster tools.

Never block - it will remove your site from major search results.

How to block MojeekBot with robots.txt

<code>User-agent: MojeekBot</code> - Matching is case-insensitive. Robots.txt is fetched from the root of each subdomain separately.

Block completely (robots.txt)

User-agent: MojeekBot
Disallow: /

Allow all (robots.txt)

User-agent: MojeekBot
Allow: /

Block private only (robots.txt)

User-agent: MojeekBot
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Allow: /

Nginx server block

# Nginx: Hard-block MojeekBot
if ($http_user_agent ~* "MojeekBot") {
    return 403 "Bot blocked";
}

Apache .htaccess

# Apache: Hard-block MojeekBot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "MojeekBot" bad_bot
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=bad_bot

Meta robots tag

X-Robots-Tag header

X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow

Is MojeekBot safe to allow?

Yes, MojeekBot is a safe and legitimate crawler. It is operated by Mojeek, which publicly documents its crawler at an official URL and follows the Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309). The user-agent string MojeekBot is verifiable via reverse-DNS lookup on the crawling IP addresses. You can safely allow it unless you have a specific reason to block (e.g., AI training opt-out or SEO tool visibility).

Verify by reverse-DNS lookup: legitimate MojeekBot requests resolve to mojeek's domain.

What does MojeekBot do?

Understanding MojeekBot's purpose helps you decide whether to allow or block it.

Crawls and indexes web pages for search results
Discovers new and updated content on your website
Analyzes page structure, content, and links for ranking
Renders JavaScript to understand dynamic content
Checks for mobile-friendliness and page speed

MojeekBot in context

MojeekBot is a search engine crawler operated by Mojeek. In plain terms, it builds a search or answer index. Our database files it under search engines and ranks it Tier 3, mid-priority crawlers with a clear purpose but a smaller audience. 62 of the 63 search engines in our database share this tier.

Its safety rating is safe and its blocking impact is critical. So MojeekBot is both well behaved and costly to lose: the strongest case for allowing it. How we rate safety and impact.

How site owners treat MojeekBot

Our robots.txt study of the Tranco top 10,000 did not track MojeekBot as a named token, so we do not publish an adoption figure for it. If you run a large site, your own logs are the best evidence of how often it visits.

Does it follow robots.txt?

MojeekBot's operator does not clearly document how it treats robots.txt. Write the MojeekBot rule anyway, then confirm in your logs that its requests stop.

Mojeek crawlers and close alternatives

MojeekBot is one of 2 Mojeek crawlers in our database. A User-agent: MojeekBot group controls MojeekBot only; the other Mojeek tokens below need their own lines.

MojeekBot: this crawler (Tier 3)
Mojeek: Mojeek, builds a search or answer index (Tier 3)

To give MojeekBot the same answer as its siblings, stack User-agent: MojeekBot with their lines above one set of rules; to treat MojeekBot differently, give it its own group.

Other search engines that do the same job (builds a search or answer index) include Amzn-SearchBot from Amazon, Applebot from Apple, baidu from Baidu, Baiduspider from Baidu, Baiduspider-favo from Baidu, Baiduspider-image from Baidu. Deciding about MojeekBot is usually a decision about the whole group, so check how your file treats these too.

We first recorded MojeekBot on March 17, 2026. Mojeek documents it on mojeek.com, and we recheck that page before each release.

Which rule MojeekBot actually follows

MojeekBot reads exactly one group in robots.txt, the most specific one that names MojeekBot, and never combines rules across groups. This short file shows the trap:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /private/

User-agent: MojeekBot
Disallow: /drafts/

Find the group. MojeekBot looks for a group naming MojeekBot. One exists, so it ignores User-agent: * completely.
Apply only that group. It is refused /drafts/ and nothing else.
The surprise. /private/ is open to MojeekBot, because that rule lives in the * group it no longer reads. To keep it out of both, repeat Disallow: /private/ inside its own group.

Test yourself: does a rule under User-agent: * apply to MojeekBot if the file also has a User-agent: MojeekBot group?

No. Once a group names it, MojeekBot reads only that group. Put every rule you want it to follow inside its own group.

Test yourself: will blocking MojeekBot remove your pages from AI answers?

Often, yes. MojeekBot is a search engine crawler, so pages it cannot fetch can drop out of the answers or results it supports.

Test yourself: is User-agent: mojeekbot the same as User-agent: MojeekBot?

Yes. RFC 9309 makes user-agent matching case-insensitive. Paths are a different story: Disallow: /Blog/ does not block /blog/.

Should you allow MojeekBot? Decide by situation

Recommended setting for MojeekBot by type of site
If you are...	Recommended setting
You publish content and want AI answers to cite it	Allow it. It is how this search engine finds your pages.
You license content and want to stop AI training	Blocking it does not stop training, because MojeekBot is a search engine crawler. Block the operator's training crawler instead.
You run an online shop	Allow it unless it is overloading your servers.
Your server is under load from bots	Rate-limit before blocking. It is rated safe in our database.

Check MojeekBot on your own site

Open /robots.txt on your domain and search for MojeekBot. If it is not named, it follows User-agent: *.
List the Disallow lines in the group MojeekBot follows and test your key URLs against them; the longest match wins, and Allow wins a tie.
Look beyond the file. A firewall or bot manager can refuse MojeekBot even when robots.txt allows it, and that never shows in the file.
Run our AI search visibility check to see how MojeekBot and every other crawler we track are treated in one pass, including firewall refusals.

Common mistakes with MojeekBot

The errors we see most often with MojeekBot in the files and firewalls we test:

Blocking MojeekBot to save bandwidth and then wondering why pages drop out of that search engine. Use crawl-rate settings or caching first.
Writing a User-agent: MojeekBot group to add one rule for MojeekBot and accidentally dropping every rule it used to follow under User-agent: *.
Disallowing CSS and JavaScript folders, which can stop MojeekBot rendering your pages properly.

All three hide inside a file that looks correct, so check MojeekBot from outside after every change.

Spotting MojeekBot in your logs

robots.txt says what MojeekBot may do; your access logs show what it actually did.

Count requests

On a server with standard Nginx or Apache logs, this counts matching requests per day (adjust the log path for your host):

grep -iE "MojeekBot" /var/log/nginx/access.log \
  | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c

And this shows which paths it requested most, which is the quickest way to see whether your Disallow lines are being respected:

grep -iE "MojeekBot" /var/log/nginx/access.log \
  | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20

Check the requests are genuine

Anyone can send the MojeekBot user-agent, so confirm the source before acting on a match:

MojeekBot: we hold no published IP list, so use reverse DNS where the operator documents a hostname and treat an unverifiable MojeekBot request with caution.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the official user-agent string for MojeekBot?

The official user-agent string for MojeekBot is: MojeekBot. This is the exact string you must use in robots.txt, Nginx, Apache, or Cloudflare firewall rules to target this bot. User-agent matching in robots.txt is case-insensitive, but the string must be spelled correctly. You can verify that a request genuinely comes from MojeekBot by performing a reverse-DNS lookup on the source IP - legitimate bots resolve back to their operator's domain.

Is MojeekBot safe?

Yes, MojeekBot is a safe and legitimate crawler. It is operated by Mojeek, which publicly documents its crawler at an official URL and follows the Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309). The user-agent string MojeekBot is verifiable via reverse-DNS lookup on the crawling IP addresses. You can safely allow it unless you have a specific reason to block (e.g., AI training opt-out or SEO tool visibility).

Will blocking MojeekBot hurt my SEO?

⛔ Critical Impact - Blocking MojeekBot will stop Mojeek from crawling and indexing your pages. Within days or weeks you may see pages drop out of Mojeek's search index entirely, resulting in a significant loss of organic search traffic. This is the most severe possible SEO consequence. Only do this intentionally, for example if you are migrating to a different search engine or decommissioning a domain. If you accidentally blocked MojeekBot, remove the rule immediately and request re-indexing via Mojeek's webmaster tools.

How do I block MojeekBot in robots.txt?

Add the following lines to your /robots.txt file:

User-agent: MojeekBot
Disallow: /

This instructs MojeekBot not to crawl any path on your site. The Disallow: / directive covers the entire domain including subfolders. To only block specific sections, replace / with the path (e.g., Disallow: /blog/). Note: robots.txt is publicly readable - any bot or human can inspect it at yourdomain.com/robots.txt.

Does MojeekBot respect robots.txt?

Yes - MojeekBot is a well-behaved bot operated by Mojeek. It fetches and parses /robots.txt before crawling any page, following RFC 9309.

How do I verify if MojeekBot is crawling my site?

Search your web server access logs for the string MojeekBot (case-insensitive grep: grep -i "MojeekBot" /var/log/nginx/access.log). You can also check Google Search Console → Coverage → Crawl Stats for Googlebot variants. For MojeekBot specifically, filter by user-agent in your log analysis tool (GoAccess, AWStats, etc.).

What is the crawl frequency of MojeekBot?

Critical-impact search crawlers like MojeekBot typically crawl popular pages daily and less popular pages weekly. You can manage crawl rate via the crawl-delay directive or via the search console.

Can I block MojeekBot from specific pages only?

Yes. Instead of a global Disallow: / you can restrict MojeekBot to specific paths:

User-agent: MojeekBot
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /staging/
Allow: /

This allows MojeekBot everywhere except the listed paths. Path matching in robots.txt uses prefix matching - Disallow: /private/ blocks /private/page.html but NOT /public/private/.

How do I check if MojeekBot is blocked by my robots.txt?

Use Google's robots.txt Tester in Search Console, or a third-party checker to simulate a MojeekBot request. You can also manually check by opening https://aicrawlercheck.com/robots.txt and scanning for MojeekBot entries. If a block exists, immediately test it against your most important URLs using the Google Search Console URL Inspection tool.

My site is blocked by MojeekBot in Search Console - what do I do?

1. Open yourdomain.com/robots.txt and look for any User-agent: MojeekBot or User-agent: * Disallow rules covering your key pages.
2. Remove or restrict the blocking rules.
3. Validate via Google Search Console → robots.txt Tester.
4. Request re-indexing using the URL Inspection tool.
5. Wait 1-2 weeks for re-crawl. Monitor Coverage report for recovery.