CFNetwork was not recognised

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🤖/👨‍🦰 Detect bots/crawlers/spiders using the user agent string

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CFNetwork was not recognised #238

Closed Kikobeats closed 9 months ago

Kikobeats commented 9 months ago

User Agent String

SpringBoard/50 CFNetwork/1209 Darwin/20.2.0
Add%20to%20Are.na/2 CFNetwork/1485 Darwin/23.1.0
SpringBoard/50 CFNetwork/1240.0.4 Darwin/20.6.0
SpringBoard/50 CFNetwork/1206 Darwin/20.1.0

Reproduce

I detected this from top-user-agents, I reported this previously (https://github.com/omrilotan/isbot/issues/231) but It seems detecting for CFNetwork is going to drop all of them.

omrilotan commented 9 months ago

The CFNetwork framework is used by many Apple developers with their applications. It does not imply the request was done by an automated service.

In this case, "SpringBoard" is the name of the application (the application that manages the iOS home screen) and "CFNetwork" is the framework used to make requests.

On issue #233 it was specified:

I have decided to not treat "SpringBoot" or "retweet" as bots. They seem to be user agents for handheld devices' applications - these are not considered self-identifying automated tools.

omrilotan commented 9 months ago

Added mentioned repo as a source of bot UA strings: https://github.com/omrilotan/isbot/pull/239

Kikobeats commented 9 months ago

makes sense, thanks!