What is SeekportBot?
The crawler for Seekport, a search engine run by SISTRIX, which finds and updates content for the Seekport index.
Crawls pages for a classic search index. Blocking it removes you from that search engine.
SeekportBot supports Crawl-delay.
SeekportBot user agent
Seekport documents this user agent for SeekportBot. Version numbers in it change over time, so match on the name, not the whole string.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeekportBot; +https://bot.seekport.com)Should you block SeekportBot?
Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.
How to block SeekportBot in robots.txt
Add a group for its token to robots.txt at the root of your site.
A bot follows only the group that names it, so it ignores your User-agent: * rules once it has a group of its own. Repeat any paths you also want kept from it there.
User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /How to verify a request is really SeekportBot
Anyone can send any user agent, so the string alone proves nothing.
Seekport publishes the IP ranges SeekportBot crawls from. A request that claims to be SeekportBot from any other address is not SeekportBot.
See when SeekportBot reads your site
Bots don’t run JavaScript analytics, so a script tag never sees them. invisit records crawler reads on the server instead, through its server SDK or a Cloudflare Worker, and shows which bots read which pages, next to your visitors.
Checked against Seekport’s own documentation on . Something changed? Write to help@invisit.dev.