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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
MSN's many cloaked bots.
Mass undocumented activity in search.msn.com ranges[2] ( 1 2 )
42 Pfui 8:28 am Apr 27, 2010
Protoype
Cloaked somethingorother from .us.ibm.com
5 Pfui 3:09 pm Apr 26, 2010
Interesting Google-bot Image Encounter
3 caribguy 3:08 pm Apr 25, 2010
Blank User agent string
Blank User agent string query
4 baiwan 6:50 pm Apr 24, 2010
Yellow Pages (heritrix)
2 Pfui 9:48 pm Apr 21, 2010
blocking user agents - 403
UA continues request
5 smallcompany 3:04 am Apr 21, 2010
Anyone know the Basefarm user agent name?
3 internetheaven 9:22 pm Apr 20, 2010
OpenX Ad Server Script Causing 404s On Server
Some Odd User Agents Requesting URIs
5 incrediBILL 9:07 pm Apr 20, 2010
dotnetdotcom or DotBot
block or not?
7 smallcompany 12:55 pm Apr 20, 2010
Creating a category specific crawler
crawler, search engine
2 rodriguez1804 10:02 am Apr 20, 2010
RatePoint
Scraping About Us pages
4 caribguy 7:08 pm Apr 14, 2010
moeenbot
2 Pfui 9:47 pm Apr 11, 2010
Facebook Sues Data Scraper
18 Brett_Tabke 7:55 pm Apr 9, 2010
blocked regular IE6 by mistake
7 smallcompany 4:10 am Apr 9, 2010
Wanted: Crawler Quality Assurance Engineer
For MSNbot/2.0
8 jdMorgan 3:04 am Apr 9, 2010
Twitterbot
2 Pfui 11:15 pm Apr 8, 2010
MetaURI
3 Pfui 9:04 pm Apr 8, 2010
Search17Bot
5 Staffa 11:02 pm Mar 31, 2010
Kroger.com 'webcrawlers'
3 Pfui 9:46 pm Mar 29, 2010
Why Google uses this?
5 smallcompany 6:33 pm Mar 23, 2010
InternetDevels
3 keyplyr 10:56 pm Mar 22, 2010
spbot
17 Pfui 10:12 pm Mar 22, 2010
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Purebot/1.1; http://www.puritysearch.net/)
6 GaryK 6:27 pm Mar 21, 2010
iisbot
A DIY crawler?
3 dstiles 10:06 pm Mar 20, 2010
Reasons for using Googlebot user agent?
5 DiscoStu 9:25 am Mar 20, 2010