It’s been a while since I touched it last, but I felt sort of motivated lately. The goal was to make a script that scans through the hits I get, and get the crawlers, spider, etc. automatically (so far, I was doing that by hand), and add those bots to the “unwanted” list I had. […]
I made it ! or at least it looks like it’s working … I’ve edited the Akismet WordPress plug-in (remember ? Akismet prevents spammers from leaving stupid comments on your WordPress powered blog) so that it calls a page of mine and update this list of spam IPs I keep for each WebCounter user. It […]
As mentioned in the last Update post, there was some work to do. Here is what I’ve done since then : – I’ve contacted Askimet team to ask them where is best to write simple code and output spam IP’s list. No answer so far, I guess I’ll have to do it by myself. – […]
For the blog, I use Akismet. It works great. But for my webcounter ??? not easy at all. So far I though it would be enough to get the list of spammers who tried to leave a comment but were block with Akismet. That was without something even funnier : some of those spammers don’t […]
As announced earlier, I’ve reset my own webcounter, since I’ve been doing a lot of tests on it, and it has put a lot of sh*t in my database :) I’ve changed a bit the code of the page showing the results, so that I can use wildcards while filtering bots. Very useful. Now I’m […]