This article contains a list of known bots whose traffic is dropped by the Pendo agent upon Pendo initialization when the Block traffic from known web crawlers setting is turned on in Settings > Subscription settings. For more information about this setting, see Bot activity in your usage data and Subscription settings.
The following table lists the values found in the user-agent string sent to your application by the bot or browser. This list is updated when more high-traffic user-agent strings become known to Pendo. It was last updated on December 24, 2024.
Name | Example |
baiduspider | "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider-render/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)" |
bingbot | "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)" |
bytespider | "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0; Pixel 2 Build/OPD3.170816.012)
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.1511.1269 Mobile
Safari/537.36; Bytespider" |
comscore | "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; proximic; +https://www.comscore.com/Web-Crawler)" |
duckduckbot | "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;(compatible; DuckDuckBot-Https/1.1; https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot)" |
ev-crawler | "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ev-crawler/1.0; +https://headline.com/legal/crawler)" |
facebookbot | "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FacebookBot/1.0; +https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/facebookbot/)" |
googlebot | "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36" |
pagekeeper | "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.21 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1042.0 Safari/535.21 PagePeeker/2.1; +http://pagepeeker.com/robots/" |
seekportbot | "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeekportBot; +https://bot.seekport.com)" |
sitebulb | "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3835.0 Safari/537.36 (compatible; Sitebulb/1.1; +https://sitebulb.com)" |
twitterbot | "Twitterbot/1.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.12.3 Chrome/69.0.3497.128 Safari/537.36" |
telegrambot | "TelegramBot (like TwitterBot)" |
ruxitsynthetic | "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.6613.84 Safari/537.36 RuxitSynthetic/1.0 v121195470181 t6999150042381094850 ath4af26d38 altpub cvcv=2 smf= |