About this bot
Sogou web 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 web spider. Representative HTTP identity: Sogou web 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 web spider.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling: depends.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Sogou web spiderSogou web spider/4.0 - Also known as
- Sogou web spider/4.0; Sogou Spider
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 web spider/4.0` identity and `Sogou web 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 web spider Disallow: /- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Sogou web spider" bot_match- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Sogou web spider") { set $bot_match 1; }