verify_crawler_visit
Check whether a crawler visit was genuine
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Given the IP address and User-Agent from a log line, say whether that visit really came from the crawler it claims to be. Checks the address against the vendor's own published ranges where they exist, and falls back to forward-confirmed reverse DNS. On one ordinary server's logs, 14% of requests claiming to be Googlebot were not Google. Use this before anyone writes a firewall rule based on a user agent string, because that string is a claim and not proof.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ip | string | yes | Source address from the log line. |
| user_agent | string | yes | User-Agent from the same line. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ip": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Source address from the log line."
},
"user_agent": {
"type": "string",
"description": "User-Agent from the same line."
}
},
"required": [
"ip",
"user_agent"
]
}