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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
  mp3Spider cn-search-devel at yahoo-inc dot com
Yahoo China bot didn't read robots.txt
3 GaryK 4:39 pm June 6, 2006
  Kyluka
10 fusion5 10:16 pm June 5, 2006
  Human or Spider?
2 besnette 8:07 pm June 4, 2006
  404s show weird compound URLs
This must be a bot but what are they looking for?
9 starhugger 3:07 am May 31, 2006
  Yeti
3 keyplyr 5:21 pm May 30, 2006
  FatBot+2.0;+www.FatLens.com
Who is this guy?
4 hvacdirect 5:07 am May 24, 2006
  Favcollector/2.1 Qe?
3 Woz 8:03 pm May 23, 2006
  MSNPTC/1.0 on advertising.msn.com
MSNPTC/1.0 spider of Microsoft AdCenter
3 woland71 2:35 pm May 23, 2006
  Google bots are visiting like crazy?
3 myowndistrict 6:08 pm May 22, 2006
  Google Wireless Transcoder (again)
from Google, but does not obey robots.txt
11 simplicity 2:51 pm May 22, 2006
  Bots Coming Into My Site
How do I know if they are crawling?
2 F_Rose 8:38 pm May 17, 2006
  msnbot-media/1.0
.microsoft.com and (MS's) .phx.gbl
3 Pfui 4:07 pm May 17, 2006
  hundreds of hits per day on robots.txt from FireFox UAs
Appear to be through "planetlab"
6 abates 10:48 pm May 16, 2006
  Shopping.com
sdcresearchlabs-testbot
2 fiestagirl 5:36 am May 11, 2006
  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)
YES, this is -not- a human visitor
4 JAB_Creations 8:40 pm May 8, 2006
  bot/1.0
3 bobothecat 6:48 pm May 8, 2006
  spider or scraper?
based on IP, how can you get the REAL STORY?
12 arnarn 4:58 pm May 8, 2006
  Mediabot coming through Yahoo! Proxy
9 volatilegx 11:59 pm May 7, 2006
  Microsoft-WebDAV - What was this trying to do?
7 JAB_Creations 7:33 am May 7, 2006
  Gt::www/1.026
a PHP/Perl class?
2 hakre 4:33 pm May 5, 2006
  KakleBot
2 bobothecat 7:24 pm May 4, 2006
  Explore XY
11 wilderness 4:16 pm May 4, 2006
  OutfoxBot /0.1?
Anyone know who what where?
2 fusion5 3:41 pm May 4, 2006
  Tarantula/0.1
3 bumpaw 8:33 pm May 1, 2006
  TAIS Pinger (A SQL thing? An MSN thing?)
Looked for (unlinked) referring site's files on my site. Loose w/ privacy.
3 Pfui 6:23 pm Apr 26, 2006