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# SeekportBot

> SeekportBot is a search engine crawler run by Seekport. The crawler for Seekport, a search engine run by SISTRIX, which finds and updates content for the Seekport index.

- Operator: Seekport
- Kind: Search engine crawler
- robots.txt token: SeekportBot
- Follows robots.txt: yes
- Source: https://bot.seekport.com (checked 2026-11-05)
- Page: https://invisit.dev/bots/seekportbot

## 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.

- [Seekport’s documentation](https://bot.seekport.com)

## 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: /
```

- [Build a robots.txt for AI bots](https://invisit.dev/tools/robots-txt-generator)

## 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.

- [SeekportBot IP ranges](https://bot.seekport.com/seekportbot_ips.txt)

## 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.

- [Track crawlers with invisit](https://invisit.dev/docs/server/sdk#crawler-reads)

## Common questions

### What is SeekportBot?

SeekportBot is a search engine crawler run by Seekport. The crawler for Seekport, a search engine run by SISTRIX, which finds and updates content for the Seekport index.

### Is SeekportBot safe to block?

Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.

### How do I block SeekportBot?

Add “User-agent: SeekportBot” followed by “Disallow: /” to your robots.txt.