SeznamBot — Seznam's web crawler
SeznamBot is the crawler for Seznam.cz, a long-established Czech search engine and web portal. It uses the SeznamBot robots.txt token. Some details are documented primarily in Czech, so this entry is marked partially verified pending confirmation in Seznam's own documentation.
What this means
SeznamBot is the crawler for Seznam.cz, a Czech search engine and portal with a notable share of search in the Czech Republic. If your audience includes Czech-speaking users, SeznamBot crawling reflects Seznam discovering and indexing your content.
Seznam documents its crawler and robots.txt handling, much of it in Czech, which is why some specifics here are marked partially verified.
robots.txt considerations
SeznamBot is described as honouring robots.txt. To control it, target the SeznamBot token. Because the user agent is spoofable and detailed verification guidance is primarily in Czech, confirm current behaviour in Seznam's official documentation where authenticity matters.
- robots.txt token: SeznamBot
- Czech search engine Seznam.cz
- Documentation primarily in Czech
How it appears in analytics and logs
A request carrying the SeznamBot token is Seznam's crawler fetching a URL — a bot event. Seznam matters most for audiences in the Czech Republic; steady crawling is the healthy state for sites targeting that market.
Diagnostic use case
Recognise SeznamBot crawling when targeting Czech-language audiences, and apply robots.txt policy for Seznam's crawler.
What WebmasterID can help detect
WebmasterID classifies SeznamBot server-side as a search crawler and shows its activity separately from human traffic, so Seznam crawl coverage is visible without log parsing.
Common mistakes
- Ignoring Seznam when targeting Czech audiences.
- Assuming exact behaviour without checking Seznam's documentation.
- Counting crawler hits as human visits.
Privacy and accuracy notes
Identification uses the user agent — no human identity. WebmasterID records SeznamBot as a bot event, separate from human analytics.
Related pages
- YandexBot — Yandex's web crawler
YandexBot is the main crawler for Yandex, a search engine with a strong presence in Russian-language search. It uses the YandexBot robots.txt token and can be verified through reverse DNS, where the IP should resolve into a Yandex domain, confirmed by a matching forward lookup.
- PetalBot — Huawei Petal Search crawler
PetalBot is the crawler operated for Huawei's Petal Search. It uses the PetalBot robots.txt token and is documented as honouring robots.txt. Petal Search is associated with Huawei devices and services, so PetalBot crawling supports that search experience.
- Bot intelligence
See search-engine crawlers separated from human traffic.
Sources and verification notes
- Seznam — SeznamBot helpSeznam's crawler documentation; some details primarily in Czech.
Last reviewed 2026-06-24. Facts are checked against primary/official sources where available; uncertain specifics are marked “Data not yet verified” rather than guessed.