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
High crawling rate
General
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)