Bots (as guests) are spamming the search function

[Scandal]

Hello people!

I have the following issue on my board:
Bots are spamming / flood the search function.

Finally I disabled search for guests usergroup to prevent it, but I don't think it is fair for the normal guests.

Does xF2.2 / 2.3 provide any solution by default or any custom addon exists for this case?

Thanks

 

[Seeker-Smith]

Hello people!

I have the following issue on my board:
Bots are spamming / flood the search function.

Finally I disabled search for guests usergroup to prevent it, but I don't think it is fair for the normal guests.

Does xF2.2 / 2.3 provide any solution by default or any custom addon exists for this case?

Thanks

Robots.txt disallows maybe

 

[Scandal]

The problem is a huge amount of guests I can see to make searches, are not counted as "robots" by xenforo, and maybe nor by robots.txt.
Sometimes on ip lookup it says data centers or sth.

Since I'm a developer, I'm thinking to build a human verification feature for search function / guests, but I decided first to ask here for any more fast solution or existing addon.

 

[MentaL]

I made an addon to just hide the new post output;



not fool proof but helps.

 

[James]

The problem is a huge amount of guests I can see to make searches, are not counted as "robots" by xenforo, and maybe nor by robots.txt.
Sometimes on ip lookup it says data centers or sth.

Since I'm a developer, I'm thinking to build a human verification feature for search function / guests, but I decided first to ask here for any more fast solution or existing addon.

There is a known bots addon that has an extensive database.

Known Bots

Jun 12, 2018

Adds additional definitions for bot detection in sessions

• Sim
• bots robots
• Add-ons [2.x]