bot-or-not(string)

This module checks whether a particular user agent string is from a known robot, crawler, spider, link checker, validator, feed reader, etc. A match for such a user agent would result in bot-or-not returning a value of true. Conversely, a value of false would be returned if a match wasn't found for the user agent.

Installation

npm install bot-or-not

Usage

var botOrNot = require('bot-or-not');

botOrNot('Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)');
// -> true

botOrNot('PSP (PlayStation Portable); 2.00');
// -> false

botOrNot('Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)');
// -> true

botOrNot('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Maxthon/3.0.8.2 Safari/533.1');
// -> false

botOrNot('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 Lightning/4.0.2');
// -> true

botOrNot('Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/10B329 Twitter for iPhone');
// -> false

Tests

npm test

Contributing

In lieu of a formal style guide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code. See the CONTRIBUTING file for more detailed information.