Disguise Your Browser as a Google Bot and Get Free Access to Pay Sites

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Disguise Your Browser as a Google Bot and Get Free Access to Pay Sites

Posted in Howto by Dan at 10:01 am

Did you know that most registration sites give Google VIP access to their restricted content? Reason being, these sites want their content indexed in Googles vast search database to attract and receive more hits. Why should Google be the only one to get this VIP treatment? Here is how, using your existing browser, that you can receive similar treatment.

First you have to trick the website that you are visiting that you are actually a Google bot. To do that you need to modify your browsers ‘User Agent.’ If you use FireFox download User Agent Switcher (UAS) to start the process.

Then you need to alter the UAS settings (Tools - User Agent Switcher - Options - Options - User Agents - Add) to the following:

Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)

Simple as that! Now you should be able to access forums and news sites that previously required registrations.

18 Comments, Comment or Trackback

Brian D.

Did you just make porn even easier to access?

Jul 9th, 2007
Brian C.

Excellent. But now what restricted site can I access now??? I tried Oink, but it’s not working there. Any recommendation??

Jul 9th, 2007
Brian B.

I was thinking the same thing!

Jul 9th, 2007
james

oink does definately not want to be indexed by google lol

Jul 9th, 2007
Adam Dempsey

Just tried it for http://www.experts-exchange.com and it worked great :)

Jul 9th, 2007
chad

also works for http://pro.imdb.com/

Jul 9th, 2007
bulgaria_mitko

Chad how do u access imdb pro? when i try it takes me to https://secure.imdb.com/signup/v4/signup !?

Jul 9th, 2007
Nigel

thats good, but what sites can we take advantage of with this?

Can we troll forums without username and passwords? Not that we will, ou know, cause thats like bad…?

Jul 9th, 2007
breakaway

I couldnt get into experts-exchange…how’d you do it?

Jul 10th, 2007
Zms

Are you using an OSX skin/theme? Your ‘OK’ and ‘Cancel’ buttons look sweet! Please spill the details!

Jul 10th, 2007
james

replace pay by ‘require registration but not payment’

Jul 10th, 2007
chad

I retract my pro.imdb statement… I thought it worked because of content being changed when you switched the user agent, but it doesn’t, I think it just assumes you have no JS or CSS so it displays a spoof image.

my bad guys :(

Jul 10th, 2007
wrufuss3

Sounds great; although, I could not get it to access anything. More support is needed.

Jul 10th, 2007
Chris

hot about a list of sites this works with or atleast a few… i mean besides expertexchange

Jul 10th, 2007
Jae Killigan

Has anyone found this to work on any site other than expert-exchange? It doesn’t seem to do much for me on the sites I’ve tried it.

The concept is interesting. Maybe I’m not creative enough to find the sites for which it works.

Jul 14th, 2007
MiMiN

Can u please clarify on how to use other websites???

Jul 17th, 2007
Johnny

Try this with Firefox…not sure if it will get you into anything other than expert-exchange…I haven’t tried:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

Jul 30th, 2007
Arend

I get this if i try to visit my own website :)

Error 403

We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for / on this server.
An invalid request was received. You claimed to be a major search engine, but you do not appear to actually be a major search engine.
Your technical support key is:

Aug 17th, 2007