BotDetection
BotDetection will help you identify users on your site as search engine crawlers or other bots like Facebook spiders. Currently supported Bots are:
- Search Engines:
- all known Google-Bots
- Yahoo
- MSN
- Bing
- Yandex
- Baidu
- Bots
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'bot_detection'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install bot_detection
Changes
See the CHANGELOG.md file for details.
Usage
After installing the GEM you can use within your controllers or helpers the following methods
# this will return true if user agent and reverse DNS lookup will match one bot out of the database otherwise false is returned
is_search_engine_crawler?
# this will return true if user agent will match one bot out of the database otherwise false is returned, a reverse dns lookup isn't executed
is_search_engine_crawler? reverse_lookup: false
# will return true if the current user agent is a known bot otherwise false is returned
is_known_crawler?
# this will return true if the current user agent is associated with google and the reverse dns lookup will match google.com or googlebot.com
is_google?
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/sumy/bot_detection/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create a new Pull Request