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Thomas--F / BotTracker

BotTracker-Plugin for Piwik
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Plugin not tracking anything #72

Closed r3pek closed 3 years ago

r3pek commented 3 years ago

Hi Thomas!

I installed your plugin on my Matomo instance but for some reason, I don't see any bots "hitting" my sites (they do show up on the logs). Am I doing something wrong or is it something wrong with the plugin? (Matomo version 4.3.0)

Thomas--F commented 3 years ago

How do you track your visitors? Do you use the JavaScript-Snippet, an 1-pixel-image, the PHP-API or the log-import? With the JavaScript- or Image-Tracking you will not "see" any bot, because the crawlers generally don't load images and don't execute Script. I use the PHP-API for tracking, so the bots flooded my results and I needed a way to sort them out. That's why I wrote this plugin. The log-import seems to work also because the bots are visible in the access-log, but I didn't test this very regulary.

r3pek commented 3 years ago

Ah ok... So that's the problem because I'm only using the javascript or the image tracking methods. Just wanted to be sure I wasn't doing anything stupid and that the result was as expected. ;) thx for the info (i'll close this now)