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visits from Google adwords bot should be excluded #4441

Closed mattab closed 10 years ago

mattab commented 10 years ago

Reported in forum http://forum.piwik.org/read.php?3,108926,108954#msg-108954

mattab commented 10 years ago

In 0fb5dd63cbdeee19904c0a6a5dcfab3624a8b4dd: Excluding Adwords bot from being tracked Fixes #4441

hpvd commented 10 years ago

just one stupid question: shouldn't this be done via the Bot Tracker Plugin? which handle all the other bot visits?

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mattab commented 10 years ago

Excluding bots is part of Piwik core as you can see in the code http://dev.piwik.org/trac/changeset/0fb5dd63cbdeee19904c0a6a5dcfab3624a8b4dd

gaumondp commented 10 years ago

Maybe Piwik should/could use these CSV sources too ?

http://user-agent-string.info/download

The full CSV list (IP Addresses of Search Engine Spiders: http://user-agent-string.info/rpc/get_data.php?botIP-All=csv) has 18 000 IP by the way...