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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
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Spying spiders - do you know (m)any of them
5 smallcompany 7:21 pm Jan 17, 2010
php-openid/2.1.1 (php/hphp) curl/7.19.4
Something new from Facebook comes...
2 Pfui 5:55 pm Jan 17, 2010
Yahoo's cloaked crawler(s)
crawler*.dls.srch.kr3.yahoo.com
3 Pfui 11:30 pm Jan 16, 2010
Yahoo blank UA
Is it really mobiles?
6 dstiles 3:42 am Jan 16, 2010
Is "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" legit?
11 KenB 2:39 am Jan 12, 2010
Bad bot? It Visits only index 5-12 times per day
122.108.33.nnn
5 TrailBum 12:00 am Jan 12, 2010
Vortex
(formerly Scout.Vortex?)
2 Pfui 7:25 pm Jan 11, 2010
CligooRobot/1.0
5 keyplyr 6:57 pm Jan 11, 2010
ParchedAnalysisAgent
(distributed HTTP access/referer spammer)
5 Pfui 10:14 pm Jan 7, 2010
cipherkey.net linked to a wide variety of bad bots
DFAgent/DivineFlowersExplorer, FinancialAnalysisAgent, LegalX Deep Analyzer
4 Pfui 10:13 pm Jan 7, 2010
Diigo caching pages in violation of meta tags & cloaking bot
4 KenB 6:18 pm Jan 7, 2010
MJ12bot v1.3.0 Implements Ground Breaking Validation Capability
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99 System 11:49 pm Jan 3, 2010
Orgbybot/OrgbyBot v1.2
7 GaryK 6:15 am Jan 1, 2010
Linguee Bot
19 Pfui 6:58 pm Dec 31, 2009
aiHitBot
4 Pfui 3:47 am Dec 30, 2009
Updating bot ban list & cleaning out obsolete entries
11 KenB 8:15 pm Dec 29, 2009
Twiceler/cuil.com craziness (FWIW)
7 Pfui 7:05 am Dec 29, 2009
Zscho.de Crawler
Nutch Redux
2 Pfui 9:22 pm Dec 27, 2009
TwitterReseach [sic]
5 Pfui 10:01 pm Dec 22, 2009
Google non-bots
What to do about rDNS?
2 dstiles 11:04 pm Dec 21, 2009
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible) Greasemonkey
2 Pfui 8:23 pm Dec 20, 2009
Variable IP proxy
3 dstiles 7:11 pm Dec 20, 2009
GazoPabot & HTMLParser
Dual-hit bots
3 dstiles 6:01 pm Dec 20, 2009
Facebook share follower
6 GaryK 9:34 pm Dec 18, 2009
Stinky crawler proxy
Googlebot fed through a proxy
3 jdMorgan 4:57 pm Dec 18, 2009