About this bot
Sogou inst spider is an automated identity associated with Sogou Inc. and used for crawling public web content for Sogou search services.
The primary recorded identity signal is Sogou inst spider. Representative HTTP identity: Sogou inst spider/4.0.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official-documented.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under Sogou inst spider.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling: depends.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Sogou inst spiderSogou inst spider/4.0 - Also known as
- Sogou inst spider/4.0
Details
- Kind
- Search engine crawler
- Family
- Sogou
- Purpose
- Search indexing
- Common Use
- search indexing and web-content discovery
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match Sogou's documented `Sogou inst spider/4.0` identity and `Sogou inst spider` robots token.
- Detection Notes
- The current documented 4.0 identity supersedes older version examples while preserving the same robots family token.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: Sogou inst spider Disallow: /- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Sogou inst spider" bot_match- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Sogou inst spider") { set $bot_match 1; }