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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
  Laugh of the day
8 wilderness 10:23 pm Nov 29, 2007
  balihoo/nutch
2 jamiro 10:07 pm Nov 29, 2007
  Banning the Windows 98 user agent
and stopping 60% of scrapers
20 Hobbs 9:56 am Nov 26, 2007
  What exactly is SnapPreviewBot?
11 schnee 4:07 pm Nov 21, 2007
  VeriSign
4 wilderness 2:50 pm Nov 21, 2007
  temasekholdings crawler
4 zerillos 5:42 pm Nov 20, 2007
  Multiple UA's
7 wilderness 1:28 am Nov 20, 2007
  Exabot
exabot.com ban or not to ban
2 Bewenched 6:53 pm Nov 15, 2007
  Strange UA
4 wilderness 3:39 pm Nov 13, 2007
  Odd User Agent.
Java?
3 Gibble 2:56 pm Nov 6, 2007
  Lexxe/Robot
3 engine 12:58 am Nov 5, 2007
  Searchme.com
comes across as Abovenet Communications
4 Bewenched 7:45 am Oct 31, 2007
  New bot or fake?
I haven't seen this one before
4 icedowl 7:42 am Oct 31, 2007
  is this a google bot/spider?
3 sandyk20 4:31 pm Oct 30, 2007
  Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google Keyword Tool; +http://adwords.google.c
No PTR
3 GaryK 3:30 pm Oct 26, 2007
  Google IP Range - blank UA and no Referrer
Blank User Agent from Google IP range getting 403's
2 The_Contractor 11:34 pm Oct 25, 2007
  Where'd this come from?
new google local search engine?
2 Import_Export 9:46 pm Oct 25, 2007
  What's Gigablast up to?
trying to spider with 'languages'
4 malachite 1:26 pm Oct 22, 2007
  gigamega
Fell into spider trap, no robot info at site
5 Receptional_Andy 12:36 am Oct 18, 2007
  archive.org bot/1.13.1x
successor to ia_archiver?
2 zCat 9:27 pm Oct 13, 2007
  canadasearchbot
5 wilderness 8:48 pm Sept 26, 2007
  customer-reverse-entry
huh?
5 Bewenched 4:25 am Sept 26, 2007
  Bots trying to find phpMyAdmin
5 SEOPTI 11:12 pm Sept 22, 2007
  Mediapartners-Google from non-Google IP
Transparent spoof of a Googlebot
2 jdMorgan 9:27 pm Sept 22, 2007
  Sogou
chinese bot
3 Bewenched 12:56 am Sept 22, 2007