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Re: Spiders & bots to add to phpBB

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Bot name: SEOkicks [Bot]
Agent match: SEOkicks
User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SEOkicks-Robot +http://www.seokicks.de/robot.html)
Website: http://www.seokicks.de/robot.html

Bot name: UberMetrics [Bot]
Agent match: ubermetrics
User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; uMBot-LN/1.0; mailto: [email protected])
Website: http://www.ubermetrics-technologies.com

(mentioned before, just adding them in the standard format)
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Bot name: Entireweb [Bot]
Agent match: Speedy Spider
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Having seen many many different feed fetchers recently, has anyone ever considered just using one global feedfetcher bot, rather than identifying each one of them seperately?

Perhaps something like
Name: Feed Fetcher [Crawler]
Agent match: feed (or perhaps rss, but I presure we can't use | for OR can we?)
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Tomba wrote:one global feedfetcher bot
If two or more parallely access the board they'd always force a race condition for the session. Another downside is: you wouldn't get accurate "last visited" timestamps which should be inspected periodically to sort out deceased crawlers.
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Bot name: WeSEE [Bot]
Agent match: WeSEE
User agent string: WeSEE:Search/0.1 (Alpha, http://www.wesee.com/en/support/bot/)
Website: http://www.wesee.com

Bot name: Digg [Bot]
Agent match: Digg
User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Digg/1.0; [email protected])
Website: http://www.digg.com

Bot name: InAGist [Bot]
Agent match: InAGist
User agent string: InAGist URL Resolver (http://inagist.com)
Website: http://www.inagist.com
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Re: Spiders & bots to add to phpBB

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Jeepers, I'm really having problems getting your forum to run properly. It is giving a 503 server down error to googlbot and only seems to be allowing in magpie. I followed all the instructions but said that anonymous does not have permissions, even though I logged in correctly. Once logged in I simply add manage_bots.php to the address in the browser, right? I blocked access to the folder so that I can give full admin rights to user Anonymous, but now I'm receiving this message:
The user you are logged in as, Anonymous, is not an Administrator with Manage Bots permission
Also, this script seems to be from 2010. Is this bot script still applicable? I wonder why bots can't access the forum.
If I were to reinstall the forum from scratch, which tables could I backup and restore in order to save all existing posts etc., usergroups and permissions?
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kenax wrote:Jeepers, I'm really having problems getting your forum to run properly. It is giving a 503 server down error to googlbot and only seems to be allowing in magpie.
That makes no sense. manage_bots is a script, not a forum, and shouldn't affect what Google sees at all beyond the typical Bot vs. Guest permissions. If somebody is getting a 503, I doubt it's because of my script.
kenax wrote:I followed all the instructions but said that anonymous does not have permissions, even though I logged in correctly. Once logged in I simply add manage_bots.php to the address in the browser, right? I blocked access to the folder so that I can give full admin rights to user Anonymous, but now I'm receiving this message:
The user you are logged in as, Anonymous, is not an Administrator with Manage Bots permission
That also makes no sense. You shouldn't be doing anything with Anonymous. That's the Guest account that all guest users share, and you should never give that any Admin permissions. You're supposed to log in as an Admin and then add manage_bots,php to the end of the forum root. For example, if they ran the script here, it would be http://www.phpbb.com/manage_bots.php.
kenax wrote:Also, this script seems to be from 2010. Is this bot script still applicable?
Why wouldn't it be. phpBB hasn't changed the layout of the Bot or User tables in any significant way that I'm aware of.

And while the post containing the code was first posted in 2010, if you looked at the last edited line, you'd see that the post was updated Sun May 27, 2012 1:07 am, which is probably when the last release was.
kenax wrote:I wonder why bots can't access the forum.
If I were to reinstall the forum from scratch, which tables could I backup and restore in order to save all existing posts etc., usergroups and permissions?
As mentioned above, manage_bots is just a script that runs along side your board. The changes that it makes to the database are basically the same as you would make through the ACP and it doesn't affect the phpBB code at all, so there's no reason to reinstall.

Did you apply any MODs to your phpBB installation? If so, that's where I'd look first.

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Re: New Manage_Bots Script 5.5

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Pony99CA wrote:manage_bots has been updated to version 5.5. manage_bots is basically version 4.0 of add_bots with the functions of delete_bots and list_bots merged in. This makes things simpler for me as I don't have to keep the bots tables in sync and simpler for you because there's only one script to worry about.
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Hi Steve, wonder if you can help regards the 5.5 script?

Obviously over time I've been manually adding/deleting bots. I recently deleted a few that I probably shouldn't have (All google bots for example) but I struggle to understand how toy use your script.

Can you explain in simple terms (For a simpleton) what I need to adjust in the php file to simply add/delete all the bots that are listed within it? I can upload the php file and call it with my browser no problem, just unsure on the setting to simply run it 'as is'.

EDIT: Just to add the below bot to your list which is absolutely hammering my forum.

Bot name:
BLEXBot [Crawler]
Agent match:
BLEXBot
User agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BLEXBot/1.0; +http://webmeup-crawler.com/)
Website:
http://webmeup-crawler.com
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Re: New Manage_Bots Script 5.5

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Volksdevil wrote:...

EDIT: Just to add the below bot to your list which is absolutely hammering my forum.

Bot name:
BLEXBot [Crawler]
Agent match:
BLEXBot
User agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BLEXBot/1.0; +http://webmeup-crawler.com/)
Website:
http://webmeup-crawler.com
Most of the bots in the script are not meant to roam your site with bot forum privileges :) generally you want to ban or restrict these 'bad' bots from crawling your pages since they really contribute nothing other than take up bandwidth.
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Fair point, I just struggle to distinguish between good/bad bots. I did have many blocked via htaccess anyway, but the one above seems legit, but I may be wrong.
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Got a new one:

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Bot name: Trendictionbot [Bot]
Agent match: trendictionbot
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Re: New Manage_Bots Script 5.5

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Volksdevil wrote:
Pony99CA wrote:manage_bots has been updated to version 5.5. manage_bots is basically version 4.0 of add_bots with the functions of delete_bots and list_bots merged in. This makes things simpler for me as I don't have to keep the bots tables in sync and simpler for you because there's only one script to worry about.
Hi Steve, wonder if you can help regards the 5.5 script?

Obviously over time I've been manually adding/deleting bots. I recently deleted a few that I probably shouldn't have (All google bots for example) but I struggle to understand how toy use your script.

Can you explain in simple terms (For a simpleton) what I need to adjust in the php file to simply add/delete all the bots that are listed within it? I can upload the php file and call it with my browser no problem, just unsure on the setting to simply run it 'as is'.
Have you tried using the Help command? http://www.example.com/phpbb/manage_bots.php?? That explains the syntax and meanings of the parameters.

I can't test here, but you should be able to use something like http://www.example.com/phpbb/manage_bots.php?operation=add&level=0 to add the phpBB default bots back or http://www.example.com/phpbb/manage_bots.php?operation=add&level=9999 to add all of the bots in the script back.
Volksdevil wrote:Fair point, I just struggle to distinguish between good/bad bots. I did have many blocked via htaccess anyway, but the one above seems legit, but I may be wrong.
manage_bots 6.0 (Beta) changes how the Level option works. Levels now represent the class of bots, not who reported the bots, so bad bots are classified with higher levels than good bots.

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Re: Spiders & bots to add to phpBB

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By the way, tweetmeme bot is obsolete and if you find it crawling your forum, it's probably a bad bot disguising as tweetmeme user agent.
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Ozo wrote:By the way, tweetmeme bot is obsolete and if you find it crawling your forum, it's probably a bad bot disguising as tweetmeme user agent.
tweetmeme.com wrote:We're really proud of TweetMeme but all good things must come to an end. Thank you for your fantastic support over the past 3 years.
Thanks for the update, but it won't matter for my script because I keep the bots in the script for historical purposes. The Bots table will still show the last visit of the bot, obsolete or not, so they stay in the script.

Maybe I could create an Obsolete class in manage_bots 6.0, but keeping up with that would be a big job.

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