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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
  Riddler honors robots.txt
2 keyplyr 6:19 am May 16, 2014
  Elisabot 1.0 user agent and IP information
5 keyplyr 8:28 am May 15, 2014
  Inktomi vulnerability probe
WordPress probe
9 keyplyr 1:08 am May 15, 2014
  Facebook scraper ? I can't figure this out.
6 kahuna 11:18 pm Apr 30, 2014
  Tiscali IstellaBot
3 carson63000 9:17 pm Apr 30, 2014
  MSIE 11 odd UA string
like gecko
2 dstiles 2:23 pm Apr 28, 2014
  Level 3 - Block 4./8 and 8./8 or not?
How to handle?
15 keyplyr 1:01 pm Apr 28, 2014
  Crawling by Google
How google crawling algo works
9 hayden 7:03 am Apr 18, 2014
  How To Block Possible Click Bombing
20 EmptyRoom 5:03 am Apr 15, 2014
  Can the Googlebot read the blocking rules inside .htaccess?
5 Andy500 8:55 pm Apr 14, 2014
  Can Cloudfare stop content scrapers?
4 Andy500 5:12 pm Apr 14, 2014
  Should I block msnbot-media
5 shamrock 8:26 pm Apr 9, 2014
  Previous Server Farms Threads
4 incrediBILL 4:46 pm Apr 9, 2014
  Should blank user agents be blocked or not?
5 aristotle 7:47 pm Apr 7, 2014
  Server Farms - Feb. 2014
Ongoing Hosting Data Center Discussion[4] ( 1 2 3 4 )
109 incrediBILL 5:43 pm Apr 7, 2014
  Is this googlebot or not?
Seems this in GBot's Range but doesn't Validate
14 webcentric 2:36 pm Apr 7, 2014
  How to block googleusercontent.com
blocking google and googleusercontent in htaccess
8 rogerroger 5:33 am Apr 7, 2014
  Bots Crawling Pages Blocked by Robots.txt
7 incrediBILL 6:52 am Apr 5, 2014
  Is there a list of user-agents to block as of today?
I'm launching a new website soon and want to avoid scrapers
6 shamrock 6:06 am Apr 5, 2014
  Hack attempt from a MS range
21 keyplyr 2:32 am Mar 25, 2014
  What is Project 5 Research, Inc.
12 HollyWMarshall 2:29 am Mar 25, 2014
  Strange crawl
8 wilderness 11:22 am Mar 23, 2014
  Semalt
Referrer spamming gone mad.
23 blend27 2:10 am Mar 22, 2014
  seegnifybot user agent and IP data
4 keyplyr 11:03 pm Mar 20, 2014
  Best Practices for blocking in Windows Server, IIS, .NET environment?
8 webcentric 3:11 am Mar 20, 2014