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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
  Baidu Behaving Badly: Goes undercover w/ cloaked UA; omits robots.txt
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)"
8 Pfui 9:47 pm June 21, 2009
  Mahalobot/1.0
3 keyplyr 5:51 pm June 20, 2009
  googlebot head request
anyone seen googlebot performing head requests?
16 enigma1 2:18 pm June 18, 2009
  MSIndianWebcrawl
8 Pfui 7:11 am June 16, 2009
  SpiderMan/1.0
5 Pfui 4:07 am June 16, 2009
  Something new from Yandex?
VisualParser
8 GaryK 4:57 am June 14, 2009
  AppEngine-Google
4 dstiles 10:24 pm June 13, 2009
  Servage Robot
2 caribguy 3:11 pm June 8, 2009
  renlifangbot
MSN China
9 keyplyr 12:33 am June 5, 2009
  FollowSite dot com
What is this thing?
15 tangor 12:26 am June 5, 2009
  AppEngine-Google: New Google UA to watch for
14 GaryK 8:29 am June 4, 2009
  Bing user agent?
Does Bing use Msnbot or not?
5 ning 7:40 am June 3, 2009
  msnbot/2.0b
New crawler from MS in the works?[2] ( 1 2 )
41 GaryK 6:20 am June 2, 2009
  Hunting Google Safebrowsing Diagnostic Spidering
Anyone seen anything?
6 incrediBILL 2:56 am May 31, 2009
  livebot-searchsense/0.1; +http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm
MSN strikes again
12 Pfui 12:27 am May 31, 2009
  Topsy.com / labs.topsy.com / butterfly.topsy.com
Butterfly/1.0 *and* libwww-perl
2 Pfui 7:37 pm May 27, 2009
  How often does googlebot hit a large new website? How many reqs/min?
12 DiscoStu 9:56 pm May 25, 2009
  is there a data centre ip list
7 topr8 4:46 am May 25, 2009
  Total Domain Data Corp
Just got a total eclipse of the heart...
7 caribguy 4:31 am May 25, 2009
  searchers.co.uk crawling
from 213.122.174.x
6 Hobbs 4:56 am May 23, 2009
  Google IP Information Request
4 hugh 8:46 pm May 21, 2009
  flatlandbot/allspark
13 wilderness 8:23 am May 20, 2009
  Profane user agents
Do you get any/many?
16 GaryK 9:50 am May 17, 2009
  New MSN Mobile Crawler UA
Launched without fanfare
12 Samizdata 8:54 pm May 12, 2009
  ms research robot
MSN strikes again. Again.
3 Pfui 8:28 pm May 10, 2009