What is SeznamBot?
SeznamBot is the crawler behind Seznam.cz's search engine. Seznam also runs FreshBot, a fast crawler for news pages and RSS feeds.
- Operator
- Seznam.cz
- Purpose
- Crawls pages for Seznam, a Czech search engine.
- robots.txt token
SeznamBot- Example user agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeznamBot/4.0; +https://o-seznam.cz/napoveda/vyhledavani/en/seznambot-crawler/)- How to verify
- Check that the reverse DNS name ends in seznam.cz and confirm with a forward lookup, or check the source IP against Seznam's published list.
- Reverse DNS
- seznam.cz
- Operator documentation
- https://napoveda.seznam.cz/en/full-text-search/seznambot-crawler/
- Last verified
How often is SeznamBot impersonated?
Our verification data for SeznamBot was incomplete during the measurement window, so a share would overstate impersonation. We show none until it is complete.
This directory measures requests between 14 July 2026 and 10 October 2026. The fake crawler report covers its own, earlier window (late June to 21 September 2026), so its figures differ from the ones here. Read it for the method.
Have a request that claims to be SeznamBot? Check its IP address.
Should you block SeznamBot?
- Allow it if
- you have Czech-speaking visitors.
- Block it if
- you have no audience in the Czech Republic and the crawl adds load.
- What blocking changes
- Your pages drop out of Seznam search.
To block it, add this group to your robots.txt. Seznam documents robots.txt control for SeznamBot.
User-agent: SeznamBot
Disallow: /robots.txt only asks. It does nothing against a client that ignores it or only pretends to be SeznamBot. Stopping those takes verification at your edge.
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