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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
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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
Does a request for /key/ASWD56xxxCSA have some sort of utility?
Google and Yandex make requests for them
1 SumGuy 11:05 pm Oct 28, 2023
DuckDuckBot
(Am I hopelessly late to this party?)
13 Pfui 9:05 pm Oct 28, 2023
Slow Scrape
Plus images
10 blend27 10:17 am Oct 28, 2023
AntBot
1 lucy24 6:11 pm Oct 22, 2023
Zaldamo Search Bot
Is this a known bot?
2 SumGuy 5:23 pm Oct 20, 2023
Hammered last night by Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) Apple
bad amazon bot?
19 Greasemonkey 5:22 pm Oct 20, 2023
what is colab.research.google.com ?
was a refer for a recent web hit
1 SumGuy 2:02 pm Oct 20, 2023
MicrosoftPreview
robots.txt
15 dstiles 5:27 pm Oct 9, 2023