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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
  Taiga web spider
17 wilderness 8:51 pm Jan 25, 2007
  Bot coming from Microsoft IPs
5 Mokita 8:34 pm Jan 25, 2007
  Podtech Network crawler
6 Mokita 7:39 pm Jan 24, 2007
  Dealing with the rogue bots and botnets
10 incrediBILL 2:09 am Jan 24, 2007
  Morfeus #*$!ing Scanner
Spam scanner or referral bomber?
5 Wemic 1:07 am Jan 23, 2007
  HTTP::Lite/2.1.6
2 wilderness 7:58 am Jan 22, 2007
  Is there a way to combat this junk?
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible ; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
2 SEOPTI 2:00 am Jan 22, 2007
  Garbage user agent srings and changing IP addreses
Impossible to block?
12 bouncybunny 10:59 pm Jan 21, 2007
  MSN Feed Manager
New feed syndicator?
4 GaryK 1:15 am Jan 19, 2007
  Please correct this .htaccess exclusion tnx!
3 morales2k 12:11 am Jan 19, 2007
  bot named bot
bot identification
2 micadelic 3:48 pm Jan 15, 2007
  Google Web Accelerator Cache Warmer
browser enhancement possibly using proxies, varied IP
5 privacyman 10:20 pm Jan 14, 2007
  DepSpid
Despite claims, distributed crawler doesn't check robots.txt
3 Pfui 9:39 pm Jan 13, 2007
  SMBot
Crawling from Amazon.com in South Africa
24 GaryK 8:08 pm Jan 12, 2007
  Ntt
6 wilderness 12:51 am Jan 12, 2007
  core-project/1.0
core-project/1.0 - Front page vulnerability
4 seanx 10:11 pm Jan 11, 2007
  Mirar Search Indexing Agent
adware/spyware toolbar active now
4 Mokita 9:57 pm Jan 11, 2007
  BuzzRankingBot
What's the buzz?
9 GaryK 9:39 pm Jan 11, 2007
  BOTW Spider
2 Mokita 12:13 am Jan 10, 2007
  WaybackMachine and Scrapers
Do scrapers scrape archive.org?
2 Umbra 7:32 pm Jan 9, 2007
  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0;)
Repeated hits by this UA, with thedomain.com as referer.[2] ( 1 2 )
33 montclairguy 2:03 pm Jan 4, 2007
  Sogou spider? Good or Bad?
2 phi148 3:28 pm Jan 2, 2007
  fake google bot?
6 pp46 11:19 am Jan 2, 2007
  LinkWalker/2.0
Anyone knows what this bot does?
3 ibnuasad 9:29 pm Jan 1, 2007
  bot/1.0 (bot; http://; bot@bot.bot)
7 Mokita 7:41 am Dec 29, 2006