Geizhals Botinfo

Learn about Geizhals bots

A bot, also known as a web robot, web spider or web crawler, is a software application designed to automatically perform simple and repetitive tasks in a more effective, structured, and concise manner than any human can ever do.

Geizhals utilises several bots to access third party websites and gather information. Traffic coming from Geizhals bots is identified by its user agent header string.

The following user agent strings are used:

LinkCheckerBot

This bot is used to check if links to third-party sites on geizhals.at, geizhals.de and geizhals.eu are still valid.

User agent string for this bot is: Geizhals LinkCheckerBot/2.0 (+https://geizhals.at/botinfo)

PixBot

This bot is used to fetch product images that are displayed on geizhals.at, geizhals.de and geizhals.eu. If you don’t want your images to be processed, please contact info@geizhals.at

User agent string for this bot is:
Geizhals PixBot/1.0 (via PixE; +https://geizhals.at/botinfo)
or 
Geizhals PixBot/1.0 (via dsimg; +https://geizhals.at/botinfo)

GrabberBot

This bot is used to fetch price lists.

User agent string for this bot is: Geizhals GrabberBot/8.0 (via Mojo; +https://geizhals.at/botinfo)