After looking at the types of bots we've had drop in lately, plus keeping with the halloween spirit, we figured it was time we had a "Creature" post.
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To start of the creatures, we were visited by a squid / clam - no kidding:
SquidClamAV_Redirector 1.8.2.
This seems to be some sort of proxy / redirector bot. Not sure what redirecting has to do with squids or clams, but the idea is interesting.
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Next up, we have the dreadful
Yeti/0.01,
a creature so fierce that they even have a ride at Disney devoted to it.
As fierce as the Yeti may be, the user agent string does kindly inform you that it does "check robots.txt daily and follow it".
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genieBot
paid us a visit, but did not offer us three wishes - just a contact email for the bot. Bummer.
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Okay, so this one may be a stretch, but
CookieMonster
is still a creature, right? Maybe we should save this one for a Sesame Street post. We are calling this one a bot until we see otherwise.
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To round off the list, we have a classic bot that hits us quite a bit, but in a slightly different form this time - you guessed it,
Python-urllib/1.17
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Happy halloween everyone - this brings our site to 110,099 user agents and 1,293 bots.