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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
Steve Souders offers help in user agent decoding
for UA Profiler
8 Clark 10:59 pm Jan 28, 2009
same IP switching UAs
many bad queries
5 smallcompany 7:00 pm Jan 28, 2009
Do search engines bots crawl proxy servers data?
3 Ezer 1:40 pm Jan 25, 2009
Distributed scraping
looks like a zombie network
9 caribguy 10:22 pm Jan 23, 2009
Iana
4 phred 10:54 am Jan 23, 2009
Digg's UA
5 incrediBILL 8:20 pm Jan 22, 2009
Guestling
Spiders interest in East Sussex
2 RHaworth 11:34 am Jan 22, 2009
AJAX Can Turn Browsers into Scrapers and Spammers
4 incrediBILL 2:56 pm Jan 21, 2009
Curious sequence of events
12 phred 6:35 am Jan 21, 2009
\wbot[\/\-] in AWStats Robots/Spiders visitors
But does not appear on raw log
8 bouncybunny 3:30 pm Jan 20, 2009
Northwest Open Access Network
8 wilderness 8:33 pm Jan 19, 2009
Tse/1.0
2 keyplyr 3:20 am Jan 18, 2009
AliBaba and the Forty . Hits
Just Heads up
4 blend27 3:39 am Jan 12, 2009
AVG-8 User-Agents revisited
Scamming using an AVG signature
6 dstiles 5:20 am Jan 11, 2009
Weird google hostname
yx-​out-​f136.​google.​com
2 johnnie 4:56 am Jan 8, 2009
ForumSeek
6 dstiles 10:45 pm Jan 4, 2009
Spinn3r RSS Aggregator
Spins out of control from Serverbeach range
2 caribguy 7:19 am Jan 4, 2009
DBLBot
dontbuylists.com
6 dstiles 7:14 am Dec 27, 2008
Do Bot-Blocking Techniques Alter Bot Behavior?
Various methods discussed, 403 forbidden vs 200 OK[2] ( 1 2 )
57 dstiles 3:30 am Dec 24, 2008
YoudaoBot
6 mcneely 12:26 pm Dec 23, 2008
P3P Policy
4 wilderness 9:48 pm Dec 22, 2008
Feedfetcher-Google-iGoogleGadgets
Something new from Google?
4 GaryK 4:23 pm Dec 21, 2008
Google manual review
which user agent do they use?
5 SEOPTI 9:10 am Dec 19, 2008
127.0.0.1
visits from 127.0.0.1
4 dolcevita 8:10 am Dec 19, 2008
Yahoo-Test ignoring robots.txt
3 dstiles 6:27 am Dec 18, 2008