Seekport is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by SISTRIX.
Seekport is an internet search engine. Originally founded in 2003, the search engine has been operated by SISTRIX, a platform intelligence provider from Bonn (Germany), since December 2014. The search engine is a public, free and independent alternative to Google. Seekport does not store user data and does not profile users. Seekport is also operated without advertising and has no conflicts of interest in the display of search results.
Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.
Seekport identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeekportBot; +https://bot.seekport.com)Anyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
Share of Seekport requests to sites protected by Transfon Security in the 7 days to 27 October 2026.
| Finland | 100% |
| Hetzner Online GmbH AS24940 | 100% |
Seekport follows robots.txt, so these rules stop it crawling the paths you choose. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: SeekportBot Disallow: /
User-agent: SeekportBot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: SeekportBot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: SeekportBot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: SeekportBot group, Seekport ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.SeekportBot from Seekport's user agent; check SISTRIX's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
Seekport brings search traffic, so keep the real one allowed. Fake Seekport requests are a common cover for scrapers, so verify it by network rather than by name.
Transfon Security for publishersSearch crawlers fetch landing pages to check them. Keep Seekport allowed, but out of campaign and conversion data.
Transfon Security for advertisersSeekport indexes products for search results. Allow it, and block impersonators that use its name to scrape prices.
Transfon Security for e-commerceAllow Seekport on marketing and docs pages, and keep it off signed-in app pages it cannot use.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows Seekport by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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Seekport is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by SISTRIX. Seekport is an internet search engine. Originally founded in 2003, the search engine has been operated by SISTRIX, a platform intelligence provider from Bonn (Germany), since December 2014. The search engine is a public, free and independent alternative to Google. Seekport does not store user data and does not profile users. Seekport is also operated without advertising and has no conflicts of interest in the display of search results.
Yes. Seekport follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the SeekportBot user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.
Add "User-agent: SeekportBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "SeekportBot" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so Seekport may not follow it, and anyone can send Seekport's user agent, so a fake Seekport ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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