Posted by hug on 12/18/05 17:22

"juglesh" <jugleshjunk@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>hug wrote:
>> "Ian B" <ianbambury@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >hug wrote:
>> >> I think it was in some PHPBB forum or other that I noticed the number
>> >> of bots was displayed.
>> >>
>> >> I track page-displays, and would like to keep separate information for
>> >> bots vs humans.
>> >>
>> >> Are there any clues available on how to detect bots? Do they use
>> >> different user-agent identities? Is there a list someplace or do I
>> >> need to begin gathering data? tia.
>
>http://www.google.com/search?q=web+spider+user+agent
>
>http://www.psychedelix.com/agents/index.shtml
>looks fairly exhaustive!
>
>you could dl bbclone, in the lib dir, you see robot.php which could
>probly help you with what you're doing. bbclone can track hits while
>disregarding robots, so maybe you could use it for your hitcounter.

Thanks very much. It sounds like bbclone is the right direction.

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