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CrawlerDetect is a Python class for detecting bots/crawlers/spiders via the user agent.

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## About CrawlerDetect

CrawlerDetect is a Python version of PHP class @[CrawlerDetect](https://github.com/JayBizzle/Crawler-Detect).

It helps to detect bots/crawlers/spiders via the user agent and other HTTP-headers. Currently able to detect 1,000’s of bots/spiders/crawlers.

### Installation Run pip install crawlerdetect

### Usage

#### Variant 1 `Python from crawlerdetect import CrawlerDetect crawler_detect = CrawlerDetect() res = crawler_detect.isCrawler('Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Sosospider/2.0; +http://help.soso.com/webspider.htm)') # true if crawler user agent detected `

#### Variant 2 `Python from crawlerdetect import CrawlerDetect crawler_detect = CrawlerDetect(user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile (compatible; Yahoo Ad monitoring; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-ad-monitoring-SLN24857.html)') crawler_detect.isCrawler() # true if crawler user agent detected `

#### Variant 3 `Python from crawlerdetect import CrawlerDetect crawler_detect = CrawlerDetect(headers={'DOCUMENT_ROOT': '/home/test/public_html', 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE': 'CGI/1.1', 'HTTP_ACCEPT': '*/*', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, deflate', 'HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL': 'no-cache', 'HTTP_CONNECTION': 'Keep-Alive', 'HTTP_FROM': 'googlebot(at)googlebot.com', 'HTTP_HOST': 'www.test.com', 'HTTP_PRAGMA': 'no-cache', 'HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.71 Safari/537.36', 'PATH': '/bin:/usr/bin', 'QUERY_STRING': 'order=closingDate', 'REDIRECT_STATUS': '200', 'REMOTE_ADDR': '127.0.0.1', 'REMOTE_PORT': '3360', 'REQUEST_METHOD': 'GET', 'REQUEST_URI': '/?test=testing', 'SCRIPT_FILENAME': '/home/test/public_html/index.php', 'SCRIPT_NAME': '/index.php', 'SERVER_ADDR': '127.0.0.1', 'SERVER_ADMIN': 'webmaster@test.com', 'SERVER_NAME': 'www.test.com', 'SERVER_PORT': '80', 'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.1', 'SERVER_SIGNATURE': '', 'SERVER_SOFTWARE': 'Apache', 'UNIQUE_ID': 'Vx6MENRxerBUSDEQgFLAAAAAS', 'PHP_SELF': '/index.php', 'REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT': 1461619728.0705, 'REQUEST_TIME': 1461619728}) crawler_detect.isCrawler() # true if crawler user agent detected ` #### Output the name of the bot that matched (if any) `Python from crawlerdetect import CrawlerDetect crawler_detect = CrawlerDetect() crawler_detect.isCrawler('Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Sosospider/2.0; +http://help.soso.com/webspider.htm)') # true if crawler user agent detected crawler_detect.getMatches() `

### Contributing If you find a bot/spider/crawler user agent that CrawlerDetect fails to detect, please submit a pull request with the regex pattern added to the array in providers/crawlers.py and add the failing user agent to tests/crawlers.txt.

Failing that, just create an issue with the user agent you have found, and we’ll take it from there :)

### ES6 Library To use this library with NodeJS or any ES6 application based, check out [es6-crawler-detect](https://github.com/JefferyHus/es6-crawler-detect).

### .NET Library To use this library in a .net standard (including .net core) based project, check out [NetCrawlerDetect](https://github.com/gplumb/NetCrawlerDetect).

### Nette Extension To use this library with the Nette framework, checkout [NetteCrawlerDetect](https://github.com/JanGalek/Crawler-Detect).

### Ruby Gem

To use this library with Ruby on Rails or any Ruby-based application, check out [crawler_detect](https://github.com/loadkpi/crawler_detect) gem.

_Parts of this class are based on the brilliant [MobileDetect](https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect)_

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