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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
  Cks
Google UA?
3 keyplyr 1:04 pm Oct 19, 2006
  Requests threw a 406 error
User agent: "Mozilla/5.0"
4 Mokita 10:47 pm Oct 18, 2006
  Mozilla/4.0; (Compitable; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;)
MS is doing sneaky stuff
8 GaryK 8:32 pm Oct 16, 2006
  Fotochecker
Except it didn't check any photos!
2 GaryK 4:27 pm Oct 16, 2006
  BlockNote.Net
HTML editor. Ripped an entire site.
3 GaryK 3:35 pm Oct 16, 2006
  Spider coming out of 208.17.184.*
Mystery spider coming out of Verisign
8 moocow 3:25 am Oct 16, 2006
  Edacious & Intelligent Web Crawler
12 volatilegx 7:38 pm Oct 15, 2006
  MSRBOT With Abovenet IP address
Is this legit
18 dataguy 3:32 am Oct 14, 2006
  Googlebot spoofing
6 GaryK 6:17 pm Oct 12, 2006
  Yahoo to be added to list of bad bots?
Ignoring Crawl Delay - up to 19 pages/sec
5 inbound 1:08 am Oct 10, 2006
  Cloaked robot from Ask.com
No robots.txt, requests and malformed URLs
5 jdMorgan 6:25 am Oct 9, 2006
  Yahoo YSM bot being bad - Please help!
3 inbound 8:16 am Oct 7, 2006
  MindMapCrawler
What's this?
7 keyplyr 5:24 pm Oct 6, 2006
  User-Agent: Nelian Pty Ltd - Spider v2.1
Owner claims he occasionally crawls as Google
8 GaryK 12:39 pm Oct 6, 2006
  RSS READER (mctwist@mail.dr-k.info).?
2 koka 7:40 am Oct 6, 2006
  InfoPath.1
Revisited
2 smells_so_good 5:03 am Oct 6, 2006
  Heads up for a voracious scraper
5 Mokita 2:28 pm Oct 1, 2006
  iearthworm
yet another rogue crawler from Yahoo!
5 GaryK 1:30 am Oct 1, 2006
  TMCrawler
reads robots.txt, and that's it...
2 bobothecat 4:42 am Sept 30, 2006
  Yahoo! spidering from new Class Cs
4 volatilegx 2:42 am Sept 30, 2006
  VerticalMatch
this is a new one
2 volatilegx 3:39 pm Sept 28, 2006
  miniRank/2.0 (miniRank; http://minirank.com/; website ranking engine)
Has anyone else seen it yet?
5 GaryK 3:27 pm Sept 28, 2006
  Hits from unidentified blog trackers
where are these spiders from?
5 abates 4:04 pm Sept 27, 2006
  ShopWiki
Very active little bot .. no referrals
5 Bewenched 6:45 pm Sept 23, 2006
  Definitive way to validate GoogleBot authenticity
official word from Google
8 incrediBILL 4:53 pm Sept 23, 2006