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.
How to block srchs-research-bot
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 srchs-research-bot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block srchs-research-bot from the whole site User-agent: srchs-research-bot 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: srchs-research-bot Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Most active around 08:00. Before the coffee is made.
Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 3 requests. Never read robots.txt.
Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.
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 srchs-research-bot respect robots.txt?
We can't say yet. It has not fetched robots.txt here, and it has not touched a disallowed page either.
Will blocking srchs-research-bot hurt my search rankings?
No. Nothing respectable will miss it.
How often does srchs-research-bot visit?
Here, about 0 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.