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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
  nasty distributed crawler
3 gurgeous 12:01 am Feb 8, 2009
  Obfuscated bot? Phone? Any code-breakers in the house?
3 Pfui 11:52 pm Feb 7, 2009
  Indeed.com spider name?
3 stephenph 10:59 pm Feb 5, 2009
  Alexa.com Bot - ai archiver
What is this?
5 ginar 10:08 pm Feb 4, 2009
  DealGates Bot/1.1
From France? ovh.net
3 caribguy 8:58 pm Feb 4, 2009
  Iac
2 wilderness 12:16 am Jan 31, 2009
  librabot/1.0 ( http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
Something new from MSFT
7 GaryK 12:26 am Jan 29, 2009
  Googlebot uses Godaddy IP range
26 keyplyr 12:05 am Jan 29, 2009
  Steve Souders offers help in user agent decoding
for UA Profiler
8 Clark 10:59 pm Jan 28, 2009
  same IP switching UAs
many bad queries
5 smallcompany 7:00 pm Jan 28, 2009
  Do search engines bots crawl proxy servers data?
3 Ezer 1:40 pm Jan 25, 2009
  Distributed scraping
looks like a zombie network
9 caribguy 10:22 pm Jan 23, 2009
  Iana
4 phred 10:54 am Jan 23, 2009
  Digg's UA
5 incrediBILL 8:20 pm Jan 22, 2009
  Guestling
Spiders interest in East Sussex
2 RHaworth 11:34 am Jan 22, 2009
  AJAX Can Turn Browsers into Scrapers and Spammers
4 incrediBILL 2:56 pm Jan 21, 2009
  Curious sequence of events
12 phred 6:35 am Jan 21, 2009
  \wbot[\/\-] in AWStats Robots/Spiders visitors
But does not appear on raw log
8 bouncybunny 3:30 pm Jan 20, 2009
  Northwest Open Access Network
8 wilderness 8:33 pm Jan 19, 2009
  Tse/1.0
2 keyplyr 3:20 am Jan 18, 2009
  AliBaba and the Forty . Hits
Just Heads up
4 blend27 3:39 am Jan 12, 2009
  AVG-8 User-Agents revisited
Scamming using an AVG signature
6 dstiles 5:20 am Jan 11, 2009
  Weird google hostname
yx-​out-​f136.​google.​com
2 johnnie 4:56 am Jan 8, 2009
  ForumSeek
6 dstiles 10:45 pm Jan 4, 2009
  Spinn3r RSS Aggregator
Spins out of control from Serverbeach range
2 caribguy 7:19 am Jan 4, 2009