Bot Protection

Keitaro automatically detects bots by the following attributes:

• IP in the bot database of Keitaro
• IP in the user's list
• UserAgent in the bot database of Keitaro
• Part of UserAgent in the user's list
• Spammers myip.ms in the black list (disabled by default)
• Empty UserAgent

You can change the settings at the page “Maintenance > Settings > Bots”.

You need to create a special stream in the campaign.

1. Create a stream with the type “Forced” and add the filter “Bots” in the “IS” mode.
2. Сhoose the necessary action. For example, “Show 404 not found”.

Read page cloaking a website.

• Bots of search engines: Google, Bing and others;
• Bots of advertising services: Google Adwords, Facebook;
• Bots of ad monitoring systems and disclosing of links.

The bot databases are updated on the page “Maintenance > Geo DBs”. Updates are issued 2 times a month.

At the page “Maintenance > Settings > Bots”, press “Edit list” . You can write IPs and CIDR. Other formats are not supported.

Example:

78.12.31.1
92.12.1.0/24

Keitaro optimizes the list. It's okay when uploading 100.000, then you see 50.000 after saving.

It is a part of UserAgent. For example, for Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) the signature Googlebot.

Open the page Settings > Bots. You can set the signatures separated by commas:

signature1, signature2, ...

The provider database is not supplied with Keitaro due to limitations imposed by the IP2Location license agreement.

You can connect the database in two ways:

1. Buy the license. Enter the license key at the page “Maintenance > Settings > Integration”.
2. Download the GeoISP.dat file manually to the directory /var/geoip/GeoISP/.

After integrating the database, you can use the “ISP” filter in the streams.