Laravel Block Bots
Introduction
Laravel Block bots is a pacakge that block bad crawlers, people trying to scrape your website or high-usage users, but lets good and important crawlers such as GoogleBot and Bing pass-thu.
Features
- ULTRA fast, less than 1ms increase in each request.
- Verify Crawlers using reverse DNS
- Highly configurable
- Redirect users to a page when they got blocked
- Allow Logged users to always bypass blocks
Install
Via Composer
composer require potelo/laravel-block-bots
Requirement
- This package rely on heavly on Redis. To use it, make sure that Redis is configured and ready. (see Laravel Redis Configuration)
Before Laravel 5.5
In Laravel 5.4. you'll manually need to register the \Potelo\LaravelBlockBots\BlockBots::class
service provider in config/app.php
.
Config
To adjust the library, you can publish the config file to your project using:
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Potelo\LaravelBlockBots\BlockBotsServiceProvider"
Configure variables in your .env file:
BLOCK_BOTS_ENABLED=false
BLOCK_BOTS_ALLOW_LOGGED_USER=true
BLOCK_BOTS_FAKE_MODE=false
BLOCK_BOTS_LOG_BLOCKED_REQUESTS=true
Usage
It's simple. Go to Kernel.php
and add to the $routeMiddleware
block as :
protected $routeMiddleware = [
...
'block' => \Potelo\LaravelBlockBots\BlockBots::class,
];
Than you can put in the desired groups. For exemple, lets set to the Wrb group:
protected $middlewareGroups = [
'web' => [
...
\App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
'block:100,/limit'
],
Where:
- 100: is the number of pages an IP can access every day
- /limit: Is the route we going to redirect the IP after the limit
Change log
Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING and CODE_OF_CONDUCT for details.
Credits
License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.