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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
  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
  How do you decide on an IP ban?
13 Status_203 1:47 pm July 11, 2010
  imrd
7 Pfui 9:52 pm July 10, 2010
  User-Agent: in User Agent string
Strange undeclared bot
5 Dijkgraaf 7:58 pm July 9, 2010
  SlugBug Spider
a new bot on the block
2 Dijkgraaf 2:30 am July 9, 2010
  SearchBlox
2 keyplyr 1:02 am July 6, 2010
  Facebook gets value of robots.txt
Not a Spider Report, just info
7 tangor 8:39 am July 2, 2010
  bloggsi
(incl. link to post-Tweet bot recap)
3 Pfui 11:22 pm July 1, 2010
  WordPress/2.9.2
What kind of UA is this?
3 tangor 4:50 pm June 30, 2010
  How to ban a crawler that I can't see
I know I'm being crawled, but I can't find the bot
15 arieng 1:54 am June 30, 2010
  MSNbot changing to Bingbot on Oct.1, 2010
3 incrediBILL 10:24 pm June 29, 2010
  Twenga-Bot
2 tangor 5:36 am June 29, 2010
  Box-Agent
3 Pfui 10:02 pm June 28, 2010
  binlar (larbin)
From an old pest: 207-67-117-17*
2 Pfui 10:04 pm June 26, 2010
  CogentCo
9 keyplyr 10:42 pm June 17, 2010
  How to enable every spider from Google, Yahoo and Bing ?
How to bann every other spider/bot/robot !
12 Future 12:26 pm June 16, 2010
  Awfully quiet in Spiders lately.
4 incrediBILL 12:20 am June 16, 2010
  GoogleToolbar in User Agent
Does this imply it's not readng the page?
19 dstiles 9:11 pm June 12, 2010
  eSobi - opinions?
desktop-based clipping app sends invalid HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE headers
11 caribguy 1:48 am June 10, 2010
  msramlbot
(from Microsoft; no robots.txt; no thanks)
2 Pfui 5:40 pm June 7, 2010
  Facebook
spidering?
2 Bewenched 7:55 am June 5, 2010
  SetEnvIf User-Agent
7 wilderness 5:33 am June 5, 2010