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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
Spambot or linkchecker
spambot, linkchecker, new bot, jazztel .es
4 marodhum 6:51 pm Dec 16, 2007
Another badbot
2 Achernar 12:14 pm Dec 16, 2007
Hot Jobs spoofing as.
6 keyplyr 4:31 pm Dec 11, 2007
Identifying spider traffic
Moving all spider traffic to a particular server
4 arieng 6:06 pm Dec 10, 2007
how to gently spider
2 alexmg 12:17 am Dec 8, 2007
ActiveTourist gone mad
2 Hobbs 1:18 pm Dec 6, 2007
fr crawler
2 zerillos 2:37 am Dec 4, 2007
RegExp Needed for Ugly UA strings
I've seen it here somewhere
11 blend27 10:46 pm Dec 2, 2007
MSIECrawler
3 zerillos 1:59 pm Dec 2, 2007
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