IsBot

Detect bots/crawlers/spiders using the user agent string.

Using a list downloaded from https://user-agents.net, the regexes in this package hit a 90% detection rate. If nothing matches, it also checks if the user agent is present in the list.

Usage

import "github.com/stephenafamo/isbot"

func main() {
    userAgent := "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Chrome-Lighthouse"
    isBot := isbot.Check(userAgent)
    if isBot {
        // do something
    }
}

Sources

The sources for detection are:

• https://github.com/monperrus/crawler-user-agents
• https://user-agents.net
• A manual list

Contributing

Run go generate to refresh the lists from the sources.

If something is misisng, send in a pull request.

GitHub

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