Overview
Seekr is a search crawler used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Seekr; related patterns include Seekr crawler.
Seekr is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Seekr is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
Seekr should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent
Seekr- Aliases
- Seekr crawler
- HTTP Agent Examples
Seekr- Robots.txt Token
Seekr- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `Seekr` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Seekr
- Purpose
- indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Seekr is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Detection Notes
- Seekr traffic is primarily detected by the `Seekr` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Seekr crawler`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- Seekr has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: Seekr Disallow: /