Limit bots 2.4.0

[Xon]

It will help.

But changing the xf_session_activity table from memory to innodb will fully make this error go away.

 

[Stuart Wright]

@Xon do you have an ETA for the 2.3 release yet please?
Thanks

 

[Xon]

Xon updated Limit bots with a new update entry:

2.4.0 - XenForo 2.3 support

• Require php 7.2+
• Require XenForo 2.2+
• XF2.3 support
• Fix not reliably applying the request's robot status to various anti-robot actions

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Deleted member 184953]

I have allowed guests to download the resources, do you think it is possible to not count downloads by bots? By adding an option to this add-on for example or is it unplayable? Thanks.

 

[Deleted member 184953]

 

[ivp]

I understand that this add-on relies solely on XF\Data\Robot::getRobotUserAgents(), which detects 35 bots only

XF\Data\Robot::getRobotUserAgents() detects 35 bots only.

This function should be replaced with CrawlerDetect or similar library, which detects 1,000's of bots/spiders/crawlers:

GitHub - JayBizzle/Crawler-Detect: 🕷 CrawlerDetect is a PHP class for detecting bots/crawlers/spiders via the user agent

🕷 CrawlerDetect is a PHP class for detecting bots/crawlers/spiders via the user agent - JayBizzle/Crawler-Detect

github.com

Here is the example for one thread:

• Internal XenForo counter reports 519 views.
• In server logs seeing 903 requests. After manually removing bots from the list, there are 355 views.
• Google Analytics reports 167 views.

If XenForo doesn't implement this into the core, maybe @Xon you could do it in this add-on?

 

[Sim]

I understand that this add-on relies solely on XF\Data\Robot::getRobotUserAgents(), which detects 35 bots only


If XenForo doesn't implement this into the core, maybe @Xon you could do it in this add-on?

@ivp have you seen this addon?

Known Bots

Jun 12, 2018

Adds additional definitions for bot detection in sessions

• Sim
• bots robots
• Add-ons [2.x]

Currently identifies over 1,600 bots and being added to regularly.

 

[ivp]

@Sim will those two add-on coexist, i.e. will Limit Bots detect bots using your database?

 

[Xon]

Use @Sim's add-on if you want more bot detections than stock XF has, as this add-on works with the Known Bots add-on.

 

[dutchbb]

Is the unanswered an unsolved sorting in question forums also blocked for bots? Or only order? And in threads?