> ## Knowledge Base Index
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> Use this file to discover available pages before exploring further.
> Pure-Markdown content can be obtained by appending a '.md' suffix to the content URLs listed in the sitemap (without the trailing slash).

# Bots blocking (Legacy Version)

|| This article applies to the **Legacy Banner**. If you are on the New Banner, please refer to [Bots Blocking (New Version)](https://help.pandectes.io/en/article/bots-blocking-new-version-y6ex3x/).

By having this option active our application checks if the store is visited by a bot and is not running for this session. In other words if a bot visits the storefront and this option is checked, then the page will load and the app will not work at all.

In our app, we perform bot detection by matching user agents against a predefined list. This ensures that we can accurately identify if a visit comes from a bot or a legitimate user.

### How to enable bots blocking

Bots Blocking can be enabled from the Banner Settings of our application. 

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### Bots

Below is the list of bots that our detection function currently checks for:

* **Google-related Bots:** Googlebot, Googlebot-Mobile, Googlebot-Image, Google favicon, Mediapartners-Google
* **Bing and Yahoo:** bingbot, Yahoo! Slurp, msnbot
* **Common Crawlers and Libraries: **wget, curl, Python-urllib, Java, Commons-HttpClient, httpunit, nutch, phpcrawl
* **Social Media Bots:** Facebookexternalhit, Twitterbot, Facebot, vkshare, Pinterest, Tumblr
* **Yandex:** yandexbot, yandex
* **Popular Crawlers:** AhrefsBot, SemrushBot, MJ12bot, DuckDuckBot, Baiduspider, Exabot, SeznamBot, Sogou, BLEXBot
* **Archival and Monitoring Bots:** archive.org_bot, memorybot, changedetection, Wayback Machine (ia_archiver), Pingability, Monitoring
* **Commercial and SEO Bots:** Lipperhey SEO Service, linkdex, Rogerbot, Ltx71, Sistrix Crawler, MegaIndex, GrapeshotCrawler
* **GDPR-related Crawlers:** Pandectes
* **General Bots:** spider, bot, crawler
* **Other Notable Bots:** Coccoc, IntegroMedb, Toplistbot, Seokicks-robot, Integromedb, Proximic, Applebot, CrystalSemanticsBot, BnLAR, OrangeBot, Qwantify, Qwantify, Adidxbot, dotbot, Ezooms, xovibot, WinHttpRequest

|| This list is constantly updated to ensure our detection mechanism keeps up with the evolving bot landscape.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this feature, feel free to reach out to our support team.