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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
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Has anyone ever seen instagram as a referrer?
And also instagram as a user-agent?
1 SumGuy 3:24 am Mar 9, 2024
zstd in Accept-Encoding request header
Is this new? Anyone else seeing it?
1 SumGuy 11:02 pm Feb 25, 2024
VsuSearchSpider/1.0
From a residential Deutsche Telekom IP
4 SumGuy 4:01 am Feb 23, 2024
Speaking of blocking VPN's.
User-Agent Workstream?
3 SumGuy 12:51 pm Feb 20, 2024
do you block IPXO ranges?
4 LifeinAsia 2:59 am Feb 15, 2024
Timpibot/0.9
2 tangor 6:55 pm Feb 7, 2024
SiteOne-Crawler
Is this a known bot/crawler?
2 SumGuy 4:32 am Jan 25, 2024
Quantbot
search engine based in France
6 SumGuy 4:26 am Jan 25, 2024
Interesting hit from a VPN with python UA
?checkstatus=areyouok
3 SumGuy 10:38 pm Jan 22, 2024
fasthttp bots
2 not2easy 1:15 am Jan 21, 2024
ImagesiftBot
appears to be a reverse image search tool
9 Bewenched 6:53 pm Jan 20, 2024
Cloudflare starts hammering me today
Actual, or DOS?
2 SumGuy 4:13 pm Jan 18, 2024
Server Farms 2023
Continuing discussion of hosting and data center IP ranges
13 not2easy 1:59 pm Jan 8, 2024
What is the purpose of fetch.tunnel.googlezip.net?
I'm seeing more of it
1 SumGuy 2:31 am Jan 7, 2024
NetpeakCheckerBot
From a comcast IP?
1 SumGuy 10:57 pm Dec 29, 2023
Strange referer seen today
file:///(...)/domains.txt
1 SumGuy 2:26 am Dec 22, 2023
Odd set of 4 UA's seen today
Some sort of probe or test I assume
2 SumGuy 12:21 am Dec 12, 2023
Seeing some strange hits today
Bytespider for one
25 SumGuy 3:17 pm Dec 11, 2023
Suspicious hits from Macintosh user agents
3 ClosedForLunch 12:44 am Dec 8, 2023
Barkrowler
not asking for robots.txt
1 Bewenched 7:20 pm Dec 2, 2023
SeekportBot
65.108.103.105
8 Bewenched 5:16 pm Dec 2, 2023
G'day from a new member interested in bots/crawlers/spiders
27 profshoelace 12:19 am Nov 26, 2023
Web hits from duckduckgo favicons-bot
Includes strange cookie string
2 SumGuy 5:54 am Nov 21, 2023
Two new scrapers
(or maybe AI-related bots)
11 asterickx 12:59 am Nov 8, 2023
Seeing Bingbot hits from 20.15.133.x
3 SumGuy 9:20 am Nov 1, 2023