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I apologize in advance if this isn't the correct forum to post this in; it seemed the most applicable one that I saw.
Due to the rather aggressive increase in bot activity that I've seen across many of my forums, I've developed "bot buster" mod and I'm offering it to the Snitz community (and several of the other major message boards as well).
I've bundled up a drop-in BotBuster mod for Snitz that people are welcome to use. Technically it's not 100% "drop-in", but it's very, very close. It's all self-contained in one file, requires NO database modifications, and should require only one minor edit to the registration file. (You'll also want to set a couple of very simple configuration options in the BotBuster file, but that's it.)
It uses the http://BotScout.com API to check registration emails and reject known bots. Because it uses the BotScout API you don't have to host anything, change your database, or do any complicated modifications to your code. BoutScout.com keeps a list of emails, IPs, and user names that bots use and makes them available through a simple API (as well as manual searches).
Full Disclosure:
I'm the owner/operator of http://BotScout.com. What we do is trap bots by using a large number of "bot honeypot" forms located on a bunch of our sites. We then publish that information so people can use it to screen registration attempts. smile
I've included configuration options for SMF, VBulletin, phpBB, Phorum, PunBB, Invision Power Board, FUDForum, Ikonboard, Snitz, and W-Agora. It can be used on virtually any kind of forum, contact page, or web form.
The code and a ReadMe file are available for download here: http://www.botscout.com/code.htm (click the "Download BotScout BotBuster ver. 1.10" link). If you use it I'd love to hear about it.
If anyone would like to write up specific installation instructions for the Snitz Forum code, I'll gladly include it in the ReadMe.txt file.
Also, if anyone would like to create a Snitz-specific mod or plugin using the BotScout API, I'd be very interested in helping and would be happy to publish the code or a link to the mod on the BotScout site. The API is simple and easy-to-use, and the API details can be found here: http://botscout.com/api.htm.
MrMike
http://BotScout.com
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Due to the rather aggressive increase in bot activity that I've seen across many of my forums, I've developed "bot buster" mod and I'm offering it to the Snitz community (and several of the other major message boards as well).
I've bundled up a drop-in BotBuster mod for Snitz that people are welcome to use. Technically it's not 100% "drop-in", but it's very, very close. It's all self-contained in one file, requires NO database modifications, and should require only one minor edit to the registration file. (You'll also want to set a couple of very simple configuration options in the BotBuster file, but that's it.)
It uses the http://BotScout.com API to check registration emails and reject known bots. Because it uses the BotScout API you don't have to host anything, change your database, or do any complicated modifications to your code. BoutScout.com keeps a list of emails, IPs, and user names that bots use and makes them available through a simple API (as well as manual searches).
Full Disclosure:
I'm the owner/operator of http://BotScout.com. What we do is trap bots by using a large number of "bot honeypot" forms located on a bunch of our sites. We then publish that information so people can use it to screen registration attempts. smile
I've included configuration options for SMF, VBulletin, phpBB, Phorum, PunBB, Invision Power Board, FUDForum, Ikonboard, Snitz, and W-Agora. It can be used on virtually any kind of forum, contact page, or web form.
The code and a ReadMe file are available for download here: http://www.botscout.com/code.htm (click the "Download BotScout BotBuster ver. 1.10" link). If you use it I'd love to hear about it.
If anyone would like to write up specific installation instructions for the Snitz Forum code, I'll gladly include it in the ReadMe.txt file.
Also, if anyone would like to create a Snitz-specific mod or plugin using the BotScout API, I'd be very interested in helping and would be happy to publish the code or a link to the mod on the BotScout site. The API is simple and easy-to-use, and the API details can be found here: http://botscout.com/api.htm.
MrMike
http://BotScout.com
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Don't know how this relates to Snitz due to the code that you show on your site requires PHP. Snitz is an ASP based forum.<
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Its an easy enough thing to do to write a mod to take advantage of either BotScouts API or StopForumSpam's API. It will require use of the XMLHTTP component to do the GET request though.
I'll have a go later and see what I come up with.<
I'll have a go later and see what I come up with.<
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I've it nearly finished but I'm waiting on an API key before I can test it properly.<
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Originally posted by PodgeAh, great. Please let me know if you don't receive the API key. We'd be glad to post your mod on the BotScout site in the downloads section when you have it done (or a link to it if you prefer).
I've it nearly finished but I'm waiting on an API key before I can test it properly.
I'm not sure about the XMLHTTP component (is that for IIS, perhaps?), but the sample code uses cURL which is included with most PHP installs these days. We had/have another person looking at doing one with fopen() but I'm not sure what the advantage(s), if any, would be.
We'd be interested in any ASP code that you get working- we don't have an ASP server available to us so we can't do any development on that platform.
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I haven't gotten the API key yet. I used my username here (Podge) and a yahoo.com email address.
How many lookups do you get before you must register ?<
How many lookups do you get before you must register ?<