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[User-Agent] (SeekPort Crawler) #444
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Loforo closed 2 years ago
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Seekport Crawler; http://seekport.com/)
Is this for Addition / Removal?
Did the User-Agent request robots.txt first?
Post Log Excerpt to show User-Agent behavior (10-20 lines is enough)
Additional information
Seems the original SeekPort search engine went bankrupt and an SEO company acquired the domain.
This bot is crawling at a ridiculously high rate for hours on end eventually causing the server to become overloaded for some time.
Searching for this user-agent on Google reveals lots of others who have add this user agent to their robots.txt file.
After adding to the user agent blacklist and returning 444's, it is still crawling. In the past 10 hours alone it has crawled over 28000 files: