Then we just let you wait another day maybe :D

[high]* TECK starts the revolution.... :)[/high]

inph - you got the code done! Stop playing wc3 and start posting :) now EYE even get inpatient

]LOL ;) :cheeky: *sorry for spam* :classic:

oi wc3 is important :p

useragent checking

Works both standalone and as a very nice compliment to TECK's vbarchive hack.

What does it do?
Allows you to match the useragent for Guests in Who's Online and display custom names/urls for recognised useragents such as Google, Teoma, Inktomi etc

You can also use it for matching the useragent anywhere on vb, ie for Currently Active Users on forumhome. expect a jazzed up online.php with icons next to names for which browser people are using sometime.

Why?
Got bored of looking up IPs then digging around the session table trying to find out which guests were really web robots also nosey to see who was reading the archives.

Install
Instructions in the file, should work with 2.2.x
Install time, 3-5mins. level, medium.

List of Detected Web Robots (thanks to TECK for listing the main ones)
Last updated: 08/02/03 10pm GMT
googlebot www.google.com Google
gulliver www.northernlight.com Northern Light
ia_archiver www.archive.org The Internet Archive
internetseer www.internetseer.com Internet Seer
linkalarm linkalarm.com Link Alarm
mercator www.research.compaq.com/SRC/mercator Mercator
openbot www.openfind.com.tw Openbot
pingalink www.pingalink.com PingALink Monitor
psbot www.picsearch.com/bot.html PicSearch
scooter www.altavista.com AltaVista
slurp www.inktomi.com/slurp.html Inktomi
turnitinbot www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html Turnitin
slysearch www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html Turnitin
zeus http://www.waltbren.com/products/zeu...rnet_robot.htm Zeus Internet Marketing
zyborg www.wisenutbot.com WiseNut
teoma www.teoma.com Teoma/Ask Jeeves

-- these last 3 are generic and will display the useragent on who's online with a link to robotstxt.org where you can look up the useragent for obsecure and new bots.

spider Web Spider
spyder Web Spyder
crawl Web Crawler
robot Web Robot

Screenshots?
Who's online:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=351495
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=351832
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=351533

Currently Active Users
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=351831

enjoy,
inph

thanks to floris for screenshots and testing

just a quick note if you're using TECK's guest_crawler

you should add the trailing dot to the ip addresses

so that you dont match (ie an octet at the beginning):
*216.239.46*
*66.196.72*

with the trailing dot you will only match:
216.239.46.*
66.196.72.*

:)

also a minor point for the vbarchive installer

the templates added are set to templatesetid=-1
which is fine but in vB's upgrade scripts, lines like:

tend to obliterate peoples templates :)

i would recommend adding the templates twice once with -1 and then again with the style id's so they appear as custom templates (with default content)

hey is 1000 hits by googlebot in 2 days good?

edited the number from 609 -1000

Very good point, I edited the file. :)
Also, I'm going to add your mod in the first post, with credit of course. Great job. :)
About the templates, is really easy, simply run again the installer, no need to recustomize the templates because they are automatically saved, if they are edited (not original), so your work is not lost...

EDIT: Link added. Check no. 5 in Forum Optimizations section. ;)

Glad you liked the hack teck

]@ inphinity > big thanx for adding that feature to show web robots on home page! and also thanx for releasing this addon! Very nice :)

PS: I think you should also release it as a hack so people will know it exist and it will be possible to add this hack to the fine collection of vb.org hacks :)

Cheers!