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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
YesupBot - No soup for you!
Bot or real visitor?
12 caribguy 9:10 pm Dec 3, 2008
Fake Googlebot from StandardShell
Spoofed UA, no additional headers
14 jdMorgan 11:58 pm Dec 2, 2008
rdfbot drops "Nutch"
UA Change
3 caribguy 9:46 am Nov 30, 2008
Identifying bots via ip and host
Identifying bots via ip and host
30 enigma1 5:20 pm Nov 29, 2008
CFNetwork again.
More junk from Yahoo?
7 GaryK 7:31 pm Nov 28, 2008
User Agent = Feedfetcher-Google
17 smallcompany 5:02 pm Nov 28, 2008
GurujiBot/1.0
Obeyed Robots.txt
3 mcneely 2:31 am Nov 28, 2008
DomainCrawler
What purpose does it serve?
11 GaryK 9:30 pm Nov 26, 2008
UA's starting with "User-Agent:"
Redundant UA declaration from MSIE look-alikes
4 caribguy 11:17 am Nov 25, 2008
SkyGrid
2 keyplyr 2:12 am Nov 25, 2008
Voracious
2 keyplyr 11:13 am Nov 24, 2008
BTWebClient
5 koan 5:00 pm Nov 23, 2008
Personifi heads up
HEAD request with Wget/1.10.2 and then GET with Mozilla/5.0 X11
8 caribguy 8:52 pm Nov 21, 2008
More netsweeper.
I feel the urge to 86 216.171.96.nnn - 216.171.111.nnn
3 caribguy 8:25 pm Nov 19, 2008
Intersting UA
13 wilderness 5:13 pm Nov 18, 2008
Strange new "no-referrer" traffic
16 Scarecrow 4:05 pm Nov 18, 2008
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OpenX Spider; http://www.openx.org)
Posed as this then crawled as Nutch
9 GaryK 5:43 pm Nov 17, 2008
WebTV
Ballmer's rival for YouTube?
6 Samizdata 3:51 am Nov 17, 2008
Bots Attack Using Randomized User Agents
Simply Blocking Libwww-PERL Won't Work
12 incrediBILL 1:06 am Nov 17, 2008
1813
how you're doing with it today?
4 smallcompany 10:38 pm Nov 16, 2008
BeB-cart
Why is a shopping cart crawling my site?
3 GaryK 5:33 pm Nov 15, 2008
lnbot
FAST Enterprise Crawler 6 used by LexisNexis
4 caribguy 2:19 pm Nov 12, 2008
Japanese AV bot?
3 Megaclinium 9:02 pm Nov 10, 2008
copyright sheriff
Another rights enforcer?
3 GaryK 10:59 pm Nov 9, 2008
is this Googlebot legit?
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
6 Nkona 7:31 pm Nov 9, 2008