Directory/Categories/Academic Research/SpiderLing

SpiderLing

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A specialized web crawler used to collect text data for building linguistic corpora and conducting lexicographical analysis.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Academic Research

Identification

Bot name

SpiderLing

How we rated this bot

Identifies itself honestly, and we found no credible reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Block or allow SpiderLing

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SpiderLing; +https://www.sketchengine.eu/crawler/) in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block SpiderLing from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SpiderLing; +https://www.sketchengine.eu/crawler/)
Disallow: /

# Allow SpiderLing full access
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SpiderLing; +https://www.sketchengine.eu/crawler/)
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SpiderLing; +https://www.sketchengine.eu/crawler/). Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

Cloudflare Radar traffic

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Links & references

Operator documentation

www.sketchengine.eu

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

FathomDiscovery

Last updated October 2, 2026

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