BotChecker

Inspired by https://github.com/charlotte-ruby/impressionist

Compares a user-agent against a list of known bot user-agents.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'bot_checker'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install bot_checker

Usage

Call BotChecker::Checker.now.bot?(user_agent)

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.