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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
  bixolabs bot broken
1433 loads of the same URL over 21 hours
6 rowan194 5:04 am Aug 15, 2010
  How to block all robots except google, yahoo, msn, and ask
7 vphoner 7:58 pm Aug 14, 2010
  Mozilla 5.0/Metal will never die
2 Dijkgraaf 7:51 pm Aug 14, 2010
  SemtoBot/0.1
2 keyplyr 3:32 pm Aug 12, 2010
  Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; ru) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.60
Russian scraper
2 Dijkgraaf 2:03 am Aug 12, 2010
  bitmagicbot
10 Pfui 5:06 pm Aug 10, 2010
  Why the obsession with Favicon?
8 Mokita 12:31 pm Aug 10, 2010
  Python-httplib2
2 yaashul 9:55 pm Aug 9, 2010
  carrier-enabler
3 Pfui 4:42 pm Aug 8, 2010
  Yandex bots - incorrect rDNS?
7 dstiles 9:40 pm Aug 6, 2010
  How to Identify bad bots from legitimate users
Need help on hints and tips that give away a bad bot
11 liam_85 3:43 pm Aug 6, 2010
  Google%20Quick%20Search%20Box
4 Pfui 12:29 pm Aug 4, 2010
  CustomUserAgent
Apple surprise?
12 Pfui 6:16 pm Aug 1, 2010
  Teleport Ultra
3 Pfui 11:14 pm July 31, 2010
  ARIN Whois
11 wilderness 1:24 pm July 31, 2010
  How to trap bots?
That crawls disallowed pages.
25 Sunnz 2:16 pm July 26, 2010
  Botnet Attempting Zen Cart Attack
Blank UAs Attacking
13 incrediBILL 3:08 am July 24, 2010
  wtv bot
2 Pfui 3:40 am July 23, 2010
  categorizers.bdbrandprotect.com referer
bdbrandprotect http referer
3 a24061 8:51 pm July 21, 2010
  acquia
7 Pfui 8:18 pm July 19, 2010
  panscient
with own IP range
4 Staffa 5:48 pm July 19, 2010
  Interesting site ripper/bot like critter
Try blocking this one (other than IP...)
3 tangor 6:47 am July 18, 2010
  Yahoo Pipes 1.0 as UA
Seems like RSS Bot?
2 blend27 8:44 pm July 16, 2010
  KiwiStatus/0.3
New Zealand Search
2 Dijkgraaf 8:25 pm July 16, 2010
  Gentoo UA - to block or not to block
2 zerillos 7:22 pm July 15, 2010