Seekport
Seekport web crawler for content discovery
About this crawler
Seekport is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Seekport in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Seekport traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.59%
Technical details
- Name
- Seekport
- Pattern
Seekport- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://bot.seekport.com
- Added
- 2022/10/17
- rDNS suffixes
.seekport.com- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Seekport with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.seekport.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeekportBot; +https://bot.seekport.com)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Seekport Crawler; http://seekport.com/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Seekport:
User-agent: Seekport
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Seekport [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Seekport") {
return 403;
}
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