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
  • Facebook

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

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/sumy/bot_detection/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request