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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MyFamilyBot/1.0; http://www.myfamilyinc.com)
Took disallowed files
7 GaryK 3:18 am Aug 6, 2006
  Goforitbot
8 Mokita 6:11 pm Aug 5, 2006
  Abusive IRLbot
Abusive behaviour is intentional
20 andye 3:26 pm Aug 5, 2006
  google-sitemaps/1.0
5 jake66 7:12 pm Aug 4, 2006
  How do I identify spiders?
6 Geoffrey_james 2:14 pm Aug 4, 2006
  Not a real HEAD request?
3 wilderness 10:35 am Aug 4, 2006
  Szukacz
claims to honour robots.txt but doesn't
5 Mokita 4:28 pm Aug 3, 2006
  Adwords Bot
2 volatilegx 4:13 pm Aug 3, 2006
  ebay indexing?
6 jake66 3:24 am Aug 3, 2006
  PigBlock
No robots.txt
4 GaryK 7:14 pm Aug 1, 2006
  Purpose of this Crawler/Bot?
7 DXL 7:04 pm Aug 1, 2006
  The new Y! slurp
3 BlackTulip 5:36 pm Aug 1, 2006
  PediaSearch.com Crawler
9 keyplyr 7:19 am July 30, 2006
  SevenTwentyFour/LinkWalker - New Owner, Mission
Watch out! Brand name surveillance via LinkWalker.
4 Wizcrafts 5:00 am July 30, 2006
  lwp::simple/5.803 pretending to be yahoo?
6 jake66 7:53 pm July 27, 2006
  "NutchCVS" (again) but from penguin26.parc.xerox.com
No robots.txt
3 Pfui 9:02 am July 26, 2006
  "GT::WWW/1.026" from .reverse.layeredtech.com
No robots.txt
7 Pfui 4:16 am July 26, 2006
  MetagerBot/0.8-dev (MetagerBot; http://metager.de; )
Note space before close paren
8 Pfui 7:19 pm July 25, 2006
  Downloads from a blank UA?
23 keyplyr 6:26 am July 25, 2006
  HA! No User Agent for You!
These just flat-out annoy me!
10 GaryK 2:16 am July 25, 2006
  Crawler/1.0 http://elibron.com
No robots.txt
5 GaryK 7:24 pm July 24, 2006
  Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;MAINSEEK BOT)
No robots.txt
3 GaryK 3:06 pm July 24, 2006
  Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; robtexbot/1.0; http://www.robtex.com/ )
Note space before close paren. Also: no robots.txt; uses site URL in ref
10 Pfui 1:50 am July 24, 2006
  "teoma agent1" from directhit.com -- no robots.txt
2 Pfui 11:17 pm July 22, 2006
  "research-spider" from .cs.brown.edu
2 Pfui 11:16 pm July 22, 2006