jaybizzle/laravel-crawler-detect

A Laravel package to detect web crawlers via the user agent

Laravel Crawler Detect

, _(*1)

A Laravel wrapper for CrawlerDetect - the web crawler detection library, _(*2)

Installation

Run composer require jaybizzle/laravel-crawler-detect 1.* or add "jaybizzle/laravel-crawler-detect": "1.*" to your composer.json file., _(*3)

The last version compatible with Laravel 4 was v1.0.2 so if you need that, you will have to fix your composer.json to that specific version., _(*4)

Add the following to the providers array in your config/app.php file.., _(*5)

  Jaybizzle\LaravelCrawlerDetect\LaravelCrawlerDetectServiceProvider::class,

...and the following to your aliases array..., _(*6)

  'Crawler'   => Jaybizzle\LaravelCrawlerDetect\Facades\LaravelCrawlerDetect::class,

Laravel 5.5 uses Package Auto-Discovery, so doesn't require you to manually add the ServiceProvider., _(*7)

Usage

```PHP use Crawler;, <sub>(*8)</sub>

// Check current 'visitors' user agent if(Crawler::isCrawler()) { // true if crawler user agent detected }, <sub>(*9)</sub>

// Pass a user agent as a string if(Crawler::isCrawler('Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; aiHitBot/2.9; +https://www.aihitdata.com/about)')) { // true if crawler user agent detected }, <sub>(*10)</sub>