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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