seekbot

search-engine seekbot

Seekbot search engine web crawler for indexing

About this crawler

seekbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern seekbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block seekbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: seekbot
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
seekbot
Pattern
seekbot
Tags
search-engine
Reference
http://www.seekbot.net/bot.html
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Seekbot/1.0 (http://www.seekbot.net/bot.html) RobotsTxtFetcher/1.2

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow seekbot:

User-agent: seekbot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} seekbot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "seekbot") { return 403; }
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