What SeekportBot does
SeekportBot crawls the public internet to find and update content for the search index of Seekport, an independent German search engine operated by SISTRIX, a company based in Bonn, Germany. It identifies itself with the user-agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeekportBot; +https://bot.seekport.com). The bot obeys robots.txt Disallow rules and the Crawl-delay directive, and Seekport publishes a list of its IP addresses.
How to identify SeekportBot
Temso identifies SeekportBottraffic by matching the request's User-Agent header against this pattern. User-agent strings can be spoofed, so treat a match as an indication, not proof.
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What is SeekportBot?
SeekportBot is the web crawler that finds and updates content for the index of Seekport, an independent German search engine operated by SISTRIX in Bonn. It identifies itself as Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeekportBot; +https://bot.seekport.com).
Can I block SeekportBot with robots.txt?
Yes. SeekportBot obeys robots.txt: the documentation states you can block it entirely with a "User-agent: SeekportBot" group containing "Disallow: /", or slow it down with "Crawl-delay: 2". Note that it may take a while until the bot has registered a new version of your robots.txt.
About Search Engine Crawlers
Classic search indexers that now also feed AI features: Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode build on Googlebot's index, and Microsoft Copilot builds on Bingbot's.
Blocking these removes you from both traditional rankings and the AI answers built on top of those indexes, usually the most costly block of all.
