se-bot-checker 1.0.3

Description:

sebotchecker 1.0.3

Search Engine Bot Checker

This is a simple python library that verifies the validity of a search engine crawler based on it's IP and user agent.
It is designed to assist SEO's and DevOps validate googlebot and other search engine bots.
Installation
pip install se-bot-checker

Usage
Using SE Bot Checker to validate a search engine crawler is simple. There are two basic steps.

Instantiate the bot class.
Call the bot class with IP and user agent arguments.

from se_bot_checker.bots import GoogleBot
googlebot = GoogleBot()
test_one = googlebot(
'66.249.66.1',
'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)'
)
test_two = googlebot(
'127.0.0.1',
'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)'
)
print(test_one)
print(test_two)

Output:
(True, 'googlebot')
(False, 'unknown')

Prebuilt Bots
There are several bot definitions that are already created, have been tested and will be maintained. The prebuilt
crawlers are the most common search engine crawlers.
Crawler validation methods



Bot
User Agent
IP
DNS




BaiduSpider
X
X*
X**


BingBot
X
X*
X


DuckDuckBot
X
X



GoogleBot
X
X*
X


YandexBot
X
X*
X



* IP validation is only used on consecutive checks run using the same bot checker instance. This means that in the
following example there will be only one DNS network request since the IP in test_two has already been validated when
test_one was run.
** BaiduSpider only supports reverse DNS validation not reverse and forward. Although it on first glance it appears
BaiduSpider should support reverse/forward DNS validation I have never had forward success for BaiduSpider.
from se_bot_checker.bots import GoogleBot
googlebot = GoogleBot()
test_one = googlebot(
'66.249.66.1',
'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)'
)
print(test_one) # (True, 'googlebot')
test_two = googlebot(
'66.249.66.1',
'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)'
)
print(test_two) # (True, 'googlebot')

BaiduSpider
BaiduSpider validation only uses reverse DNS lookup not reverse and forward.

Name: baiduspider
Domains: .baidu.com, .baidu.jp
User Agents: baiduspider
Use RegEx: False

BingBot

Name: bingbot
Domains: .search.msn.com
User Agents: bingbot, msnbot, bingpreview
Use RegEx: True

DuckDuckBot
DuckDuckBot only uses IP validation from the list of valid IPs.

Name: duckduckbot
IPs: See list below
User Agents: duckduckbot, duckduckgo
Use RegEx: True

20.191.45.212
40.88.21.235
40.76.173.151
40.76.163.7
20.185.79.47
52.142.26.175
20.185.79.15
52.142.24.149
40.76.162.208
40.76.163.23
40.76.162.191
40.76.162.247
54.208.102.37
107.21.1.8

Updated: January 31, 2022

GoogleBot

Name: googlebot
Domains: .googlebot.com, .google.com
User Agents: googlebot
Use RegEx: False

YandexBot

Name: bingbot
Domains: .search.msn.com
User Agents: bingbot, msnbot, bingpreview
Use RegEx: True

Creating Your Own Bot Definition
SE Bot Checker was designed to be extensible. The core of SE Bot Checker is the Bot class. To create your own
bot you can simply extend Bot.
Here is custom bot that will only validate Googlebot mobile.
from se_bot_checker.bots import Bot

class MobileGoogleBot(Bot):
"""
Mobile googlebot checker
"""
name = 'googlebot-mobile'
domains = ['.googlebot.com', '.google.com']
user_agent = 'android.*googlebot'

That is all there is to it. However, we could simplify this a little by extending the GoogleBot class.
from se_bot_checker.bots import GoogleBot

class MobileGoogleBot(GoogleBot):
"""
Mobile googlebot checker
"""
name = 'googlebot-mobile'
user_agent = 'android.*googlebot'

Both the desktop and mobile versions of Googlebot use the same domains for the reverse/forward DNS validation. This
means we can simply extend GoogleBot. This is the recommended approach when possible.
Bot API
This class is the core of SE Bot Checker. It handles the validation process. New bot definitions should subclass this
class.
A single bot class can be instantiated once and called many times. The allows base settings to be configured and
multiple IP and user agent pairs to be validated simply.
Bot.name: str This is the name the bot will return if it validates to True.
Bot.ips: iterable A list of known valid IPs.
Bot.domains: iterable A list of known valid domains. This is used to validate the results of the reverse
DNS lookup. An exact match or a super domain of the DNS lookup results is considered a positive match.
Bot.user_agent: str A substring or RegEx pattern to use to validate the request user agent. For the best
performance and compatibility request user agent string are changed to lowercase prior to matching. the user_agent
string should be lower case. If you need to validate upper or mixed case user agents you can override the
Bot.valid_user_agent() method.
Bot.use_regex: bool Whether the user agent validation should use substring or regex matching. If
user_agent is just a string and not a RegEx pattern this should be False. It slightly faster. Defaults to False.
Contributors
@danielmorell
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