Nobody has adopted scraperbot9000 yet. Adopt scraperbot9000: your name goes on a plaque on this page for a year.
scraperbot9000's food bowl
the bowl, as bots see itThe bowl is empty. Last time, scraperbot9000 ate the Extra Crispy Hashbrowns itself, 1 h ago.
Identification
Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:
There is no operator to verify against. This name is what software calls itself when nobody gave it one.
No operator stands behind this name, so there is nothing to check its visits against.
How to block scraperbot9000
Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from scraperbot9000's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block scraperbot9000 from the whole site User-agent: scraperbot9000 Disallow: /
Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:
# Let it in, but keep it out of one room User-agent: scraperbot9000 Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Most active around 19:00. After dark, like a burglar.
Requested 3,436 disallowed pages out of 3,437 requests. Never read robots.txt.
Walked through the hidden /trap/ door. Last caught 56 min ago.
Opened 3,436 rooms in the endless maze. Style: Wanderer. Picks a door in a different spot each time, one room per level. Watch it in the Labyrinth →
Where it comes from
Scripts and scanners run from wherever their owners rent a server. These are the networks behind the visits on file:
Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.
Keeper's field notes
Questions site owners ask
Does scraperbot9000 respect robots.txt?
No. It has never requested robots.txt here, and it has fetched disallowed pages 3,436 times.
Will blocking scraperbot9000 hurt my search rankings?
No. Nothing respectable will miss it.
How often does scraperbot9000 visit?
Here, about 491 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.