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newelement/laravel-block-bots
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Block bots and high traffic offenders using Redis

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Laravel Block Bots
==================

[](#laravel-block-bots)

Introduction
------------

[](#introduction)

Laravel Block Bots is a package that blocks bad crawlers, people trying to scrape your website or high-usage users, but lets good and important crawlers such as GoogleBot and Bing pass-through.

Features
--------

[](#features)

- ULTRA fast, less than 1ms increase in each request.
- Verify Crawlers using reverse DNS
- Highly configurable
- Redirect users to a page when they get blocked
- Allow logged-in users to always bypass blocks

Install
-------

[](#install)

Via Composer

```
composer require newelement/laravel-block-bots
```

#### Requirement

[](#requirement)

- This package relies heavily on Redis. To use it, make sure that Redis is configured and ready. (see [Laravel Redis Configuration](https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/redis#configuration))

#### Config

[](#config)

To adjust the library, you can publish the config file to your project using:

```
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Newelement\LaravelBlockBots\BlockBotsServiceProvider"

```

Configure variables in your .env file:

```
BLOCK_BOTS_ENABLED=true
BLOCK_BOTS_MODE=production
#options: `production` (like a charm), `never` (bypass every route), `always` (blocks every routes)
BLOCK_BOTS_USE_DEFAULT_ALLOWED_BOTS=true
BLOCK_BOTS_WHITELIST_KEY=block_bot:whitelist
BLOCK_BOTS_FAKE_BOTS_KEY=block_bot:fake_bots
BLOCK_BOTS_PENDING_BOTS_KEY=block_bot:pending_bots
BLOCK_BOTS_LOG_ENABLED=true

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

It's simple. Go to `Kernel.php` and add to the `$routeMiddleware` block as :

```
protected $routeMiddleware = [
        ...
        'block' => \Newelement\LaravelBlockBots\Middleware\BlockBots::class,
    ];

```

Than you can put in the desired groups. For example, let's set to the Web group:

```

 protected $middlewareGroups = [
        'web' => [
            ...
            \App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
            'block:100,daily', // 100 requests per day.
        ],

```

Where:

- **100**: is the number of pages an IP can access every day
- **daily**: is the time period. Options: `hourly`,`daily`, `weekly`, `monthly`, `annually`

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

Original package by [Potelo](https://github.com/potelo)

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance43

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity47

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor2

2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~13 days

Total

3

Last Release

450d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/188085?v=4)[Don Jones](/maintainers/newelement)[@newelement](https://github.com/newelement)

---

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