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Sure, are you sure you want to create threads? you'd get soooooo many of them, remember i added the thread making and logging for test purposes so folk could see that it was working for their selected spiders are being dealt with.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd (Post 2347488)

Yes I have had this Mod working for so long, the really bad spiders like Baidu have stopped visiting completely. This Mod generated only 88 threads yesterday. I plan to turn the thread making feature on and off periodically, just for occasional monitoring purposes.

The IPs in the post would be great, if it's not too difficult and if you please.

Edit: It would be nice too if we could make it post everything in the same thread in addition to the option of creating a new topic for each bot.

Ok, if you can wait until next week as i've promised my wife that i'll give the computer a rest for a week (other than important stuff) so i'll get to it after then :)

@Max Taxable for now (just because i can't make you wait :)) go to admincp>plugins & products>Plugin Manager find the Ban Spiders mod's plugins and look for Post UA Activity to thread and replace all of the code you see there for this

PHP Code:


		
			
if ($vbulletin->options['bsactive'] AND $vbulletin->options['bs_report_createthread'])
{
$agentip = strtoupper($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
$DateOfRequest = date('m-d-Y H:i:s');
$user_agent1 = strtoupper($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
$bots1 = explode("\r\n", $vbulletin->options['bs_sel_list']); 
$n = sizeof($bots1);
for ($i=0;$i<$n;$i++) {
if (stristr($user_agent1,$bots1[$i])) 
{
    // Backend Files
    require_once('./global.php');
    require_once('./includes/class_dm.php');
    require_once('./includes/class_dm_threadpost.php');
    require_once('./includes/functions_databuild.php');

$threaddm =& datamanager_init('Thread_FirstPost', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY, 'threadpost');
$threadinfo = array();
$vboptions =& $vbulletin->options;
$username = $vbulletin->userinfo['username']; 
$forumid = $vbulletin->options['bs_report_forumid']; 
$foruminfo = fetch_foruminfo($foruminfo['forumid']);
$title = "Activity from Bot No. $i ($bots1[$i]) in your list";   
$userid = $vbulletin->options['bs_report_userthread'];
if ($userid == '')
{
  $userid=1;
}
if ($forumid =='')
{
exit;
}
$pagetext = "[b]Date and Time:[/b] $DateOfRequest\n[b]Associated Username (if any): [/b]$username\n[b]Matched bots[$i]:[/b] $bots1[$i] \n[b]With User Agent:[/b] $user_agent1\n\n[b]Their IP:[/b]$agentip\n\n[b]They visited:[/b]\n[url]$_SERVER[SERVER_NAME]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI][/url]\n\n"; 
$posticon = $vbulletin->options['subthread_posticon'];
$allowsmilie = '1';
$visible = '1';

$threaddm->set_info('forum', $foruminfo);
$threaddm->set_info('thread', $threadinfo);
$threaddm->setr('forumid', $forumid);
$threaddm->setr('userid', $userid);
$threaddm->setr('pagetext', $pagetext);
$threaddm->setr('title', $title);
$threaddm->set('iconid', $posticon);
$threaddm->set('allowsmilie', $allowsmilie);
$threaddm->set('visible', $visible);

 // Lets see what happens if we save the page
$threaddm->pre_save();
if(count($threaddm->errors) < 1) {
    // Basically if the page will save without errors then let do it for real this time
    $threadid = $threaddm->save();
    unset($threaddm);
    build_thread_counters($threaddm);
    build_forum_counters($forumid);
    build_forum_counters($threadinfo['forumid']);
   // unset($threaddm);
} else {
    // There was errors in the practice run, so lets display them
    var_dump ($threaddm->errors);
}
 
 }
 }
}

You'll now get their ip in the thread thats created :)

The posting to same thread for each bot will require queries to the database, we'd have to add a column to store thread id's against bot names...etc, it could work out kinda messy and resource expensive, but, i'll still look in to it!

Thanks Simon! I was content to wait though.:D

Hi Simon, Can you maybe give us a link to some newer bad behavior bots.
I did check your links for the Bad Bots, I just dont know if you already have banned those bots in the links, and how to bann a bot using a webhost, which says "dreamhost.com" fake google?
But it will not make problems for me to bann a REAL hosting company?

Waiting for a reply befor I install it! Thank you

Read the links properly, i have linked you to the "how do i ban a bot?" and links to some maintained lists, and as i have said repeatedly banning bots/spiders/UAs is a personal thing :)

Simon...

Is there a quick line of code we can add that captures User Agent info as well as IP, and includes this info in the email?

Isn't it already included in an email?

This will show the useragent:
With User Agent: $user_agent1\n\

Add it anywhere under Matched Bots in the email message, should be good, i dont have time right now to check it properly as i've been up 21 hours now and desperately need sleep!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd (Post 2359928)

Isn't it already included in an email?

This will show the useragent:
With User Agent: $user_agent1\n\

Add it anywhere under Matched Bots in the email message, should be good, i dont have time right now to check it properly as i've been up 21 hours now and desperately need sleep!

It's not but I'll play around with this and let you know what works. Thanks for the quick response.

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