Thank you so much, you're INCREDIBLE!
XF Bot Guard 1.4.1
- Thread starter zeeb0t
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Thank you so much, you're INCREDIBLE!
Don't know if you saw, but 1.2.7 will give you an option to natively support the social media unfurls, including WhatsApp.
Absolutely. Cloudflared Bot Directory (that only seems to list "official" bots) currently lists 612 bots in total, 559 of them "verified" and 53 "signed". I'd assume the directory and within it the latter category is what we are talking about.
Given that the "Known Bots" add on by @Sim currently is listing 1892 bots, is far from being comprehensive and leaves out the illegal nasty scraper-bots the CF directroy is rather a joke than anything else and the signed bots are not terribly relevant to check. But something like that will emerge and gain traction, possibly in not too distant future, as the problem has become so huge for both: Website owners as well as companies that use honest and legal bots.
For anyone who had the update polling issue with XenForo main, it seems like it may have been a temporary issue on XenForo side.
Got one error in the server log:
Looks like the add-on has some trouble with special characters in topic titles.
Code:
XF\Db\Exception: XF Bot Guard failed open: MySQL query error [1366]: Incorrect string value: '\xC3t-1.h...' for column `database`.`xf_zee_botguard_event`.`route` at row 1
src/XF/Db/AbstractStatement.php:225
Generated by: Unknown account
Jun 11, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Stack trace
INSERT INTO `xf_zee_botguard_event` (`event_date`, `user_id`, `content_type`, `content_id`, `route`, `controller`, `action`, `request_method`, `request_path`, `event_type`, `decision`, `risk_score`, `visitor_hash`, `ip_hash`, `session_hash`, `request_uri_hash`, `referrer_hash`) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
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#0 src/XF/Db/Mysqli/Statement.php(207): XF\Db\AbstractStatement->getException('MySQL query err...', 1366, '22007')
#1 src/XF/Db/Mysqli/Statement.php(83): XF\Db\Mysqli\Statement->getException('MySQL query err...', 1366, '22007')
#2 src/XF/Db/AbstractAdapter.php(96): XF\Db\Mysqli\Statement->execute()
#3 src/XF/Db/AbstractAdapter.php(219): XF\Db\AbstractAdapter->query('INSERT INTO `x...', Array)
#4 src/addons/Zee/BotGuard/Service/EventAuditWriter.php(38): XF\Db\AbstractAdapter->insert('xf_zee_botguard...', Array)
#5 src/addons/Zee/BotGuard/Repository/EventLog.php(216): Zee\BotGuard\Service\EventAuditWriter->insertEventRow(Array)
#6 src/addons/Zee/BotGuard/Repository/EventLog.php(47): Zee\BotGuard\Repository\EventLog->insertEventRow(Array)
#7 src/addons/Zee/BotGuard/Service/ChallengeDecider.php(355): Zee\BotGuard\Repository\EventLog->log(Array, 'verified_crawle...', 'allow', 0, Array, Array)
#8 src/addons/Zee/BotGuard/Service/ChallengeDecider.php(126): Zee\BotGuard\Service\ChallengeDecider->verifiedCrawlerAllow(Array, 1.78117E+9, Array)
#9 src/addons/Zee/BotGuard/Service/ChallengeDecider.php(93): Zee\BotGuard\Service\ChallengeDecider->evaluateInteractiveDocumentRequest(Array, 1.78117E+9)
#10 src/addons/Zee/BotGuard/Listener.php(50): Zee\BotGuard\Service\ChallengeDecider->evaluate(Array)
#11 src/XF/Extension.php(86): Zee\BotGuard\Listener::dispatcherPreDispatch(Object(XF\Mvc\Dispatcher), Object(XF\Mvc\RouteMatch))
#12 src/XF/App.php(3366): XF\Extension->fire('dispatcher_pre_...', Array, NULL)
#13 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(96): XF\App->fire('dispatcher_pre_...', Array)
#14 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(57): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->beforeDispatch(Object(XF\Mvc\RouteMatch))
#15 src/XF/App.php(2824): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->run()
#16 src/XF.php(814): XF\App->run()
#17 index.php(23): XF::runApp('XF\\Pub\\App')
#18 {main}
Request state
array(4) {
["url"] => string(55) "/forum/list_messages/33302/Is-dit-humor-of-w%C3t-1.html"
["referrer"] => bool(false)
["_GET"] => array(1) {
[""] => string(0) ""
}
["_POST"] => array(0) {
}
}Looks like the add-on has some trouble with special characters in topic titles.
I'm still on 1.2.3, I'll run the upgrade over the weekend and let you know how it went.
1.2.7 will be released hopefully in next 12 hours or so.
Thanks for the report! I'll get this bug fixed for next release.
You're welcome! Testing is all looking great...
The way this addon seems to be progressing we may have xf bot guard 3.0 a few years before xf 3.0Is it out yet? Is it out yet?.....
zeeb0t updated XF Bot Guard with a new update entry:
Minor Release: v1.2.7
Read the rest of this update entry...
Minor Release: v1.2.7
Read the rest of this update entry...
So, with the new update - you can go and enable the light valid response feature, and add to the list of user agents:
Code:
XenForo/2.*Then, whatever your IP - it should work.
Works like a charm, thanks for the quick fix. Need to donate soon
You're welcome!
I believe it already supports Redis cache, your stats are prob fine and just awaiting the CRON to run to regenerate them after a conversion, black theme thing is legit issue for some. I'm using memcached on mine, in addition to selective settings at cloudflare..
You're welcome, and thank you for the feedback.
Redis cache is already supported. XF Bot Guard uses XenForo’s cache system, so whatever cache backend you have configured for XenForo, including Redis, will automatically be used by the add-on.
Regarding the black theme issue, could you please send me a screenshot and let me know which theme/style you are using? XF Bot Guard already supports XenForo’s native light and dark modes, so if this is happening with a third-party or custom admin style, I’ll need to take a closer look to understand what is being applied.
Updating the add-on should not permanently reset statistics. There were some updates where the data schema was improved, and during the upgrade process some dashboard snapshot data may be regenerated later, by the hourly dashboard snapshot cron. This can make it look like the statistics have reset temporarily, but once the dashboard snapshot cron runs again, the dashboard should rebuild in full.
