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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
Strange UA and Activity from Google
has the gbot become sentient?
2 uncle_bob 12:55 am Oct 3, 2004
Ocelli/globalspec.com
Who is this?
3 PCInk 9:56 am Oct 2, 2004
Echelon? NSA? What?!
Is anyone else seeing this, and being creeped out?
3 Enhasa 9:45 pm Sep 26, 2004
How do I track the spiders?
Novice here...
2 Phil_AM 7:39 pm Sep 24, 2004
Seekon
new spider
2 volatilegx 5:14 pm Sep 24, 2004
findlinks/0.87
3 wilderness 6:22 pm Sep 22, 2004
Rogue Yahoo-MMAudVid crawler
Yahoo crawler hammers website, ignores robots.txt
22 tangent 9:07 am Sep 21, 2004
Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1
2 wilderness 3:22 pm Sep 18, 2004
JetEye Spider?
2 joeychgo 4:25 am Sep 18, 2004
Googlebot IP 66.249.64.n
6 Just_Guessing 9:35 pm Sep 16, 2004
Is it Google or not?
I would expect any Ip used by Google would DNS resolve?!
4 MaxGrenk 11:32 pm Sep 15, 2004
Fast?
3 wilderness 1:01 am Sep 15, 2004
Unexplained visits
no referrer - endless visits..no javascript
2 websitegal 8:39 pm Sep 13, 2004
Cerberian Drtrs Version-3.1-Build-16
Does not fetch robots.txt
13 jdMorgan 1:43 pm Sep 13, 2004
automatic logfile spam generator
how to stop automated robot queries with false headers
6 cayleyv 2:00 am Sep 12, 2004
Alexa bot intent on harvesting email addresses
Why does Alexa want email addresses?
6 surfin2u 12:45 am Sep 12, 2004
bob102.inktomisearch.com
requesting /?marcoz_bs=my+favorite+keyword
2 bnhall 5:50 pm Sep 8, 2004
Googlebot is Mozilla 5.0 compatable now
seem new robots still under deploy
2 chedong 4:10 am Sep 7, 2004
Spambots in PDFs
Can spambots harvest e-mail addresses from PDF files?
3 cdarling 3:28 am Sep 7, 2004
MSIE/6.0 libwww-perl/5.76
Looking for advice on this robot.
3 Tony_L 4:00 am Sep 6, 2004
ShowLinks/1.0+libwww/5.4.0
anyone seen this one
5 aswaine 10:49 pm Sep 2, 2004
BruinBot
5 volatilegx 8:05 pm Sep 2, 2004
Has anyone had this one?
Being spidered for 2 days
9 rainman359 6:31 pm Sep 2, 2004
Exava (exabot@exava.com)
New shopping search engine in Mountain View, CA
20 jamesa 1:46 pm Sep 2, 2004
New Unfriendly U-A and Request URI
Is this an attempted server exploit?
8 Wizcrafts 4:06 am Sep 2, 2004