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I want to, using PHP, differentiate between an actual person and a bot. I currently track page views and they are massively inflated due to bots crawling my pages so I want to only record real people. It doesn’t matter if its not 100% accurate I just want a nice simple way to do it via PHP.
To be clear, this is not for analytics’s per se; it is so that I can track what images are being served daily so I can produce a “top images of the day” sort of script.
You should be checking the user agent string, most well behaved search bots will report themselves as such.
Google’s spider for example.