Pagepeeker.com

bad bot

[cyberdyne]

Pagepeeker .com - "Put website thumbnails and favicons on your site. Free branded (unlimited impressions), free unbranded, paid versions. Fast servers, lots of impressions included."

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A few months ago I noticed a lot of unnecessary extra activity from this bot so added it to my robots.txt using: Disallow: /

Recently, it has been on a mission, hitting my page dozens of times in a 48 hours period despite still having access to robots.txt, thereby ignoring its' rules, so it is now blocked it via .htaccess

Anyone else seen over-enthusiastic activity from this bot ?

[Pfui]

Just always-bad activity, from it and its notoriously bad ISP. [webmasterworld.com...]

[cyberdyne]

Thank you for confirming.

[keyplyr]

hetzner/your-server, Africa
188.40.0.0 - 188.40.0.31
188.40.0.0/16

[cyberdyne]

Also
46.4.120.2
46.4.32.18

[keyplyr]

deny from 46.4.0.0/16 should take care of all these hetzner/your-server ranges:

46.4.0.0 - 46.4.0.31
46.4.32.0 - 46.4.32.63
46.4.120.0 - 46.4.120.31

[cyberdyne]

Thanks keyplyr, although I will say one thing in the bots defence; at least it always identifies itself as User-Agent: PagePeeker(*) so that will also work as an effective block ...for now.

[keyplyr]

@cyberdyne

IMO a lot of pests come from hetzner/your-server, in all their ranges/locations.

Here are some more:

78.46.0.0 - 78.46.255.255
78.46.0.0/15

85.10.192.0 - 85.10.207.255
85.10.192.0/18

88.198.0.0 - 88.198.15.255
88.198.0.0/16

176.9.0.0 - 176.9.0.31
176.9.0.0/16

178.63.0.0 - 178.63.0.63
178.63.0.0/16

188.40.0.0 - 188.40.0.31
188.40.0.0/16

213.133.96.0 - 213.133.111.255
213.133.96.0/19

213.239.192.0 - 213.239.199.255
213.239.192.0/18

[cyberdyne]

Duly noted ;)
Thank you.