Dealing with crawlers, weird stuff and security! : r/webdev - Reddit

I was looking at my server logs and stats and noticed many weird things. One thing that stuck out was a bot that was crawling my site way too ...

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Spiders crawling broken links - Webmasters Stack Exchange

Unknown bot crawling the same broken (HTTP 400) URL over and over again. Different User Agent and different country of origin. The Problem. It ...

The most active crawlers and bots on the web - DeviceAtlas

We've just updated our list of most active web crawlers, bots and spiders visiting websites, i.e. the most common instances of non-human traffic ...

HubSpot Links Crawler 2.0 user agent hitting protected pages

The crawler is most likely hitting that page because we are making an identify() call to associate an unknown user with an email address. Hubspot hitting us is ...

Help Blocking Abusive Crawlers - Apache Lounge

Yep, we all have to live with it. There are dozens and dozens crawlers around with (changing) user agent, and daily there can pop up new ones.

website - illegitimate traffic from user agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U ...

So my suspicion is a mobile app that is doing a lot of "spider requests". It would be good to know the root cause of the traffic from that user ...

Unknown robot (identified by 'spider') - MyBB Community Forums

I went to Awstat on my cPanel to see which bots are crawling my website and this is what I got: ... Unknown robot (identified by empty user agent ...

What is a web crawler? | How web spiders work - Cloudflare

A web crawler, or spider, is a type of bot that is typically operated by search engines like Google and Bing. Their purpose is to index the content of ...