BLP_bbot/0.1

The BLP_bbot/0.1 user agent is associated with Bloomberg Financial Market and is referred to as “BLP” within their own internal naming conventions. It’s likely used by Bloomberg for web crawling purposes, potentially related to financial data aggregation and analysis​.

User Agent’s

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; BLP_bbot/0.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
BLP_bbot/0.1

Reverse PTR

Not all IP addresses from BLP_BBot resolve back to a hostname. In my case, most do not, but the ones that did were showing this.

injr-spdrproxy1.bloomberg.com
iny-spdrproxy1.bloomberg.com	

Subnets

AS10361

69.191.208.0/22 
69.191.240.0/20	

Others

Google search

Most of the search results on Google reference the robots.txt file disallowing the BLP_BBot.

No entry at myip.ms

• https://myip.ms/browse/comp_browseragents/1/txt/BLP_bbot

High crawling rate

• Thread: BLP_bbot indexing at an INSANE rate, one of the websites I host. 800Gb / month

General

• WTF Is BLP_bbot?

In short, if BLP_bbot is crawling you it’s probably because you’re actually important enough in an economic sense to be worth looking at and if you block it, I would expect bad and unintended results.

https://lyte.id.au/2010/02/04/wtf-is-blp_bbot/ (2024-05-02)