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[Resolved] Filtering bots

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WordPress Download Monitor Plugin › Forums › Download Monitor Plugin Forum › Filtering bots

  • This topic has 6 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 5 years ago by admin.
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  • May 19, 2020 at 5:07 pm #1569
    vavw
    Participant

    Two bots stubbornly make it onto the downloads list:

    Sidetrade indexer bot

    Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/6.1; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)

    Can these be filtered out of the download log?

    May 20, 2020 at 12:19 am #1570
    admin
    Keymaster

    The bot one is a continuous process since new ones keep coming over time. Do you know the full user agent value of the them so I can check it out?

    If you enable the capture user agent data option, then it will show that full user agent value in the logs.

    May 20, 2020 at 8:49 am #1571
    vavw
    Participant

    The data is from the User Agent column:

    Sidetrade indexer bot

    and

    Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/6.1; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)

    May 21, 2020 at 1:19 am #1572
    admin
    Keymaster

    The following one looks a little bit weird which is why I asked that question:

    Sidetrade indexer bot

    Normally, the value should look something like the other one you posted.

    okay I have added these two to the Bot filtering function. So it won’t make it to the log from the next version of the plugin.

    May 22, 2020 at 2:30 pm #1573
    vavw
    Participant

    Thanks!

    May 23, 2020 at 11:28 am #1574
    vavw
    Participant

    This plugin, to check broken links on a website [marcobeierer.com/wordpress-plugins/link-checker] when run, will also register in the download log.

    May 24, 2020 at 11:32 pm #1575
    admin
    Keymaster

    What is the User agent value of it?

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