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Download Monitor Plugin – Stop Bots from Incrementing the Download Count

If your website gets a lot of bot activity then you may want to stop the bots from incrementing the download count of your downloads.

The simple download monitor plugin has a feature that you can use to let the plugin handle this for you automatically.

Step 1) Go to the settings menu of this plugin then enable the following checkbox:

Do Not Count Downloads from Bots

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Step 2) Save the settings.

Now, the plugin will ignore any download attempts from any of the following bots.

archiver, binlar, casper, checkprivacy, clshttp, cmsworldmap, comodo, curl, diavol, dotbot, email, extract, feedfinder, flicky, grab, harvest, httrack, ia_archiver, jakarta, kmccrew, libwww, loader, miner, nikto, nutch, planetwork, purebot, pycurl, python, scan, skygrid, sucker, turnit, vikspider, wget, winhttp, youda, zmeu, zune

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