Help recognizing bots?
| From: | Brian Dunning | Date: | Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:57:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Help recognizing bots? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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I'm using the following code in an effort to identify bots:
$client = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
if(!strpos($client, 'ooglebot') && !strpos($client, 'ahoo') && !strpos($client, 'lurp') && !strpos($client, 'msnbot'))
{
(Stuff that I do if it's not a bot)} But it doesn't seem to be catching a lot of bot action. Anyone have a better list of user agents? (I left off the first letter of some to avoid case conflicts.)