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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
  BotTracer; (+http://www.informacja.pl) scanning [Your URL here]
Okay so this is just creepy.
5 Pfui 12:26 am Mar 7, 2009
  Safari 4 Beta
Is this the right user agent?
7 GaryK 10:29 pm Mar 6, 2009
  Google OpenSocial agent
Appears to be something new from Google
3 GaryK 8:31 pm Mar 2, 2009
  OpenfosBot (Korea)
4 Pfui 7:21 pm Mar 2, 2009
  Nutch in disguise?
BobCrawl and Yowedo from same IP
3 GaryK 3:30 am Mar 2, 2009
  verify-Compliance Notice
An unusual referer?
9 dstiles 11:35 pm Mar 1, 2009
  /msgimport / requests
what is this?
17 smallcompany 7:05 pm Mar 1, 2009
  Web-non-sense
aka websense, surfcontrol, mailcontrol and blackspider
5 caribguy 6:45 pm Mar 1, 2009
  DailyPerfect
another scraper?
3 dstiles 8:48 pm Feb 28, 2009
  Google AdWords API
2 caribguy 5:32 pm Feb 27, 2009
  WinWebBot by balaena.com
3 dstiles 4:49 pm Feb 26, 2009
  Google IP grabbing JS and CSS only - bot?
6 Receptional_Andy 2:30 pm Feb 26, 2009
  WebDAV-MiniRedir
2 wilderness 1:26 am Feb 24, 2009
  GrubNG
Is this a Vista crawler?
2 tangor 5:06 pm Feb 23, 2009
  A pair of WordPress crawlers
No idea what purpose they serve
5 GaryK 2:37 am Feb 23, 2009
  spider appending url?
2 smokeybarnable 11:34 pm Feb 21, 2009
  Do you see a lot of "google.co.jp" referers, looking more like a bot?
I'm seeing a lot of "random" traffic from 122.208.209.nnn
3 kzim 1:38 am Feb 20, 2009
  WWW-Mechanize/0.72
Sneaky
6 tangor 8:06 am Feb 19, 2009
  Kintiskton
Banned after I stopped laughing
21 caribguy 4:56 am Feb 19, 2009
  happyfunsearch.com HappyFunBot
2 jmccormac 5:24 pm Feb 16, 2009
  Yanga WorldSearch Bot
18 keyplyr 2:28 pm Feb 16, 2009
  Opera.com Bot
Opera/9.10 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
4 Pfui 10:12 pm Feb 15, 2009
  Spider or ripper?
5 tangor 10:10 pm Feb 15, 2009
  Safari favicon bot?
This is really weird!
5 tangor 8:50 pm Feb 15, 2009
  LucidMedia ClickSense
7 wilderness 8:10 pm Feb 13, 2009