Uafilter

[streams@fediversity.site]

 Bill Statler wrote the following post Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:04:44 -0700

Uafilter
I see a new toy arrived in streams-addons yesterday...

https://codeberg.org/streams/streams-addons/src/branch/release/uafilter/uafilter.php

Name: Uafilter
Description: Block profile access to your site members based on User-Agent.

(Thanks, Mike!)

@Bill Statler

[mikedev@fediversity.site]

Want a fediverse without Mastodon?

Easy, peasy.

% util/addons install uafilter
% util/config uafilter.deny mastodon

[tallship@zotum.net]

Brilliant!

#tallship

@tallship

[billstatler@forum.statler.ws]

Cool, now I've also learned how to use util/config.

Can this also be done by editing .htconfig.php?

App::$config['uafilter']['deny'] = 'useragent1,useragent2';

Would that work?

[mikedev@fediversity.site]

Would that work?

Yes.

[einer@digitalesparadies.de]

@Mike Macgirvin ️ [[email protected]] Please could you document how to use the uafilter, somewhere in the repo (git), e.g. readme.md ?

[einer@digitalesparadies.de]

https://codeberg.org/streams/streams-addons/issues/16

[mikedev@fediversity.site]

addon/uafilter/uafilter.php:

/**
 * Example:
 * % util/addons install uafilter
 * % util/config uafilter.deny "gab,mastodon,fb_iab,instagram,facebookexternalua"
 *
 */

doc/guide/en/addons.mc:

Uafilter

A fork of fckmeta which lets the site admin define which User-agents to block.
Configuration storage at key = ['uafilter']['deny']. comma-separated patterns; case-insensitive string match. For example "mastodon,facebook,gab"  

[einer@digitalesparadies.de]

@Mike Macgirvin [[email protected]] gave some hints how to use it, see https://fediversity.site/channel/streams?mid=https://fediversity.site/item/2c5e5436-f2cd-4d64-8bb7-a038629d5953