isbot

Go library to detect HTTP bots.

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Go library to detect HTTP bots.

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jka·Jun 18, 2020

It looks like GoatCounter does; it uses a library, https://github.com/zgoat/isbot by the same author to detect bots. Detecting and deterring spam and sketchy behaviour while using open source software could be an interesting technical problem area.

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Carpetsmoker·Jun 4, 2020

I worked on a library to do this for my own analytics thing[1]; adding a CLI so you can filter bots from logfiles isn't too hard: just need to parse the log lines to a http.Request{} with the correct fields filled in (mostly User-Agent, but also looks at IP address). One of the signals is from various JS properties though (navigator.webdriver, window._phantom), so you'll miss out on that. I have some other ideas as well. Either way, it's better than nothing? https://github.com/zgoat/isbot

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