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2007.10.25 - The Creature Post


After looking at the types of bots we've had drop in lately, plus keeping with the halloween spirit, we figured it was time we had a "Creature" post.
  • To start of the creatures, we were visited by a squid / clam - no kidding: SquidClamAV_Redirector 1.8.2. This seems to be some sort of proxy / redirector bot. Not sure what redirecting has to do with squids or clams, but the idea is interesting. related...
  • Next up, we have the dreadful Yeti/0.01, a creature so fierce that they even have a ride at Disney devoted to it. As fierce as the Yeti may be, the user agent string does kindly inform you that it does "check robots.txt daily and follow it". related...
  • genieBot paid us a visit, but did not offer us three wishes - just a contact email for the bot. Bummer. related...
  • Okay, so this one may be a stretch, but CookieMonster is still a creature, right? Maybe we should save this one for a Sesame Street post. We are calling this one a bot until we see otherwise. related...
  • To round off the list, we have a classic bot that hits us quite a bit, but in a slightly different form this time - you guessed it, Python-urllib/1.17 related...

Happy halloween everyone - this brings our site to 110,099 user agents and 1,293 bots.

Archives:

2008.7.6

Dog Days of Summer Bots
2008.6.23

Another one bites the dust
2008.6.22

Bots don't run out of gas
2008.6.19

And we're back...
2008.1.21

Happy 2nd Birthday!
2007.10.25

The Creature Post
2007.9.7

iTunes, Facebook, Google Earth, and more
2007.7.22

Hot Summer Bots
2007.7.6

The Apple iPhones have landed!
2007.6.13

Twiceler calls off the bots
2007.6.13

Twiceler Strikes!
2007.6.3

Land of 1,000 bots
2007.4.22

April Bots Bring May Traffic... (we hope)
2007.4.16

Spring Cleaning in the Web Traffic Logs
2007.3.24

March Bot Madness
2007.3.10

Got Spiders?
2007.2.24

Some New Faces (bots, of course)
2007.2.10

Winks, DataFountains, Hijacks, and Tool - what's the connection?
2007.2.3

February Stars
2007.1.12

Happy 1st Birthday!
2007.1.1

The 2007 bots are in!
2006.12.23

Have a Merry-Bot-Christmas
2006.12.12

50,000 User Agents!
2006.11.4

2 weeks, 19 new bots
2006.10.17

2 weeks, 30 bots
2006.10.2

4 weeks, 23 bots
2006.9.9

Playing catchup with the bots
2006.8.26

500 bots!
2006.8.20

5 days, 8 bots
2006.8.15

Two weeks, 15 new bots
2006.8.2

Another week, another gang of new bots
2006.7.25

40,000 User Agents!!!
2006.7.4

New category, bot revisions, and 6 new bots for July 4th
2006.6.25

New batch of imports!
2006.6.18

5 new bots, just in time for Father's Day!
2006.6.4

8 new bots for the database
2006.5.19

A couple new sightings
2006.5.9

Quiet week, one new bot
2006.5.2

A few new bots
2006.4.20

A quick bot-sighting update
2006.4.12

More user agents, more bots
2006.3.19

5,000+ New User Agents
2006.3.9

42 more bots, lots of new user agents
2006.2.19

New Bots and Browsers just addded!
2006.1.25

Welcome to Bots vs Browsers!
2006.1.17

Welcome to the User Agents Database that has no name yet!
2006.1.12

Day One




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