See Spiders Online

David · September 21, 2003, 03:27:25 PM

Would be cool for search engine spiders to be listed in the users online list when they are on your forum.

Joshua Dickerson · September 21, 2003, 04:00:15 PM

lol, it would be funny. Guests: 5 Members: 10 Spiders: 2

bostasp · September 21, 2003, 04:02:37 PM

So much for people with arachnophobia

Ben_S · September 21, 2003, 04:22:59 PM

Quote from: bostasp on September 21, 2003, 04:02:37 PM
So much for people with arachnophobia

:d:d I like the idea

Skoen · September 23, 2003, 03:21:29 AM

You can maybe call it something else than Spiders, how about Bots.
Seems a lot more neutral, and that's what they are. Bots crawling your site. Then it wouldn't be dangerous for the arachnophobia folks.
Not that I'm noe comfortable with the name spiders, but Bots are a lot more neutral in translation as well.

Nemesis · September 23, 2003, 03:38:59 AM

seems like a pain in the butt. too many spiders are out there and they all seem to use random ip's and techniques.

Skoen · September 23, 2003, 03:42:28 AM

Yeah, they have dynamic. But maybe not show it to the public at Who's Online, but put it in the Access Log in the admin panel. More relevante, as it is only for the admin to know how many bots who have crawled the board. But this is definatley a mod.

Shadow · September 23, 2003, 01:03:30 PM

Invision (sp?) shows spiders online, and even has them named...

Fizzy · September 23, 2003, 01:54:57 PM

The question is would any members give a flying pig which bots were in or not ?
Useful for admins but a waste of space for any regular members.
It should belong in the admin section but not who's online.

Saying that though, I would like to see which spiders enter and where they go on the forum

Spaceman-Spiff · September 23, 2003, 02:06:46 PM

there are so many bots and crawler names out there to keep track...
maybe it will be a nice mod....

Jack.R.Abbit™ · September 23, 2003, 02:20:09 PM

I'm with Fizzy... being able to track spiders' movements as an admin would be alright... but from a user point... who gives a crap?

Shadow · September 23, 2003, 02:57:57 PM

I'd like to see if google is browsing the board...

Omar Bazavilvazo · September 23, 2003, 03:55:00 PM

would be great to be seen by admins, and, as an option, by all users if they want to...

Spaceman-Spiff · September 23, 2003, 04:18:26 PM

ok then, why not just include the user agent in log_errors
so we can see if its a bot or not

Happy Axeman · September 23, 2003, 07:09:09 PM

tracking and logging which spiders and where they have visited would be a cool feature... but I suppose your running into web site traffic anaylisis, which defeats the object of being a forum... lol
but I like the idea of showing how many spiders are on line for admins only.

klumy · September 27, 2003, 02:12:17 PM

I like this feature

treo · September 28, 2003, 11:17:47 AM

it's not too hard to identify such a spider because they have such "cool" user agent names like Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)

Cerberus · October 01, 2003, 05:20:45 PM

It would be nice

Curbow 5 · September 29, 2004, 11:57:29 AM

sorry to bump an old thread like this, but i just got reminded of this again by an IPB... any new thoughts an making this a mod, or even better, a feature?

ryanbsoftware · September 29, 2004, 12:01:03 PM

IPB dispalys bots in the who's online list, well some big ones anyway like googlebot.

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