Forum Moderated by: open

Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
Googlebot spoofing
6 GaryK 6:17 pm Oct 12, 2006
Yahoo to be added to list of bad bots?
Ignoring Crawl Delay - up to 19 pages/sec
5 inbound 1:08 am Oct 10, 2006
Cloaked robot from Ask.com
No robots.txt, requests and malformed URLs
5 jdMorgan 6:25 am Oct 9, 2006
Yahoo YSM bot being bad - Please help!
3 inbound 8:16 am Oct 7, 2006
MindMapCrawler
What's this?
7 keyplyr 5:24 pm Oct 6, 2006
User-Agent: Nelian Pty Ltd - Spider v2.1
Owner claims he occasionally crawls as Google
8 GaryK 12:39 pm Oct 6, 2006
RSS READER (mctwist@mail.dr-k.info).?
2 koka 7:40 am Oct 6, 2006
InfoPath.1
Revisited
2 smells_so_good 5:03 am Oct 6, 2006
Heads up for a voracious scraper
5 Mokita 2:28 pm Oct 1, 2006
iearthworm
yet another rogue crawler from Yahoo!
5 GaryK 1:30 am Oct 1, 2006
TMCrawler
reads robots.txt, and that's it...
2 bobothecat 4:42 am Sep 30, 2006
Yahoo! spidering from new Class Cs
4 volatilegx 2:42 am Sep 30, 2006
VerticalMatch
this is a new one
2 volatilegx 3:39 pm Sep 28, 2006
miniRank/2.0 (miniRank; http://minirank.com/; website ranking engine)
Has anyone else seen it yet?
5 GaryK 3:27 pm Sep 28, 2006
Hits from unidentified blog trackers
where are these spiders from?
5 abates 4:04 pm Sep 27, 2006
ShopWiki
Very active little bot .. no referrals
5 Bewenched 6:45 pm Sep 23, 2006
Definitive way to validate GoogleBot authenticity
official word from Google
8 incrediBILL 4:53 pm Sep 23, 2006
Bot banning consultants and/or bad bot banning services
Do they exist? Help for those of us who haven't a clue
16 Webwork 3:00 am Sep 23, 2006
panscient data services
block them NOW or pay later - 200 megs a day!
7 amznVibe 5:11 am Sep 22, 2006
seo bot from AOL?
who is this new bot showing up
3 bhartzer 10:57 pm Sep 21, 2006
Bot or no Bot
no user agent odd requests
2 Bewenched 4:25 pm Sep 20, 2006
Google Mobile Indexing Agent?
no request for robots.txt
3 keyplyr 10:49 pm Sep 18, 2006
Adwords - adbot
HELP - can't find it!
2 howiejs 3:14 am Sep 15, 2006
IEAutoDiscovery
Pre-fetcher, feed reader, e-mail harvester, or what?
2 GaryK 8:03 pm Sep 13, 2006
Who is TridentSpider/3.1?
spider from Slovenia?
3 Bewenched 4:25 pm Sep 12, 2006