CrawlerDetect plugin for Craft CMS

Use CrawlerDetect to detect 1.000's of bots/crawlers/spiders in Craft.

Installation

To install CrawlerDetect, follow these steps:

1. Download & unzip the file and place the crawlerdetect directory into your craft/plugins directory
2. Install plugin in the Craft Control Panel under Settings > Plugins
3. The plugin folder should be named crawlerdetect for Craft to see it.

CrawlerDetect works on Craft 2.4.x and Craft 2.5.x.

CrawlerDetect Overview

The CrawlerDetect library is a PHP class for detecting bots/crawlers/spiders via the user agent and http_from header. Currently able to detect 1,000's of bots/spiders/crawlers.

Using CrawlerDetect

Detect if bot/crawler:

{% if craft.crawlerDetect.isCrawler() %} .. {% endif %}

Pass a user agent as a string:

{% if craft.crawlerDetect.isCrawler('Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Sosospider/2.0; +http://help.soso.com/webspider.htm)') %} .. {% endif %}

Output the name of the bot that matched (if any)

{% set matches = craft.crawlerDetect.getMatches() %}

Credits

CrawlerDetect by Mark Beech.

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