oalders/http-browserdetect — Issue #29: Mediapartners-Google not recognized as robot
Author: als1
Created: 2011-12-30 03:33:27+00:00
State: open

It's definitely a bot. I've seen the user-agent "Mediapartners-Google" in our logs many times, and apparently it also appears as: "Mediapartners-Google/2.1", see http://www.internetofficer.com/web-robot/adsense/

In the most recent HTTP::BrowserDetect (1.39), neither of these is recognised as robot:

% perl -MHTTP::BrowserDetect -le 'print "robot: ".(HTTP::BrowserDetect->new("Mediapartners-Google")->robot ? "yes" : "no")'
robot: no