Re:Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web
by simias on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:09PM
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Indeed, years ago I had scripts to automatically fetch URLs from IRC and I quickly realized that if I didn't spoof the user agent of a proper web browser many websites would reject the query. Googlebot's UA worked just fine however.
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Re:Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web
by judge2020 on Friday March 26, 2021 @01:49PM
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> Googlebot's UA worked just fine however
They obviously don't care enough then - Google says you should use rdns to verify that googlebot crawls are real[0]. Cloudflare does this automatically now as well for customers with WAF (pro plan).
0: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...