marcvanh/laravel-bot-block

A custom middleware package for Laravel. Temporarily blocks crawlers scanning for vulnerabilities.

1.0.8 2025-02-20 16:51 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.0

MIT

• Marc Van Houwelingen

README

A custom middleware package for Laravel. It monitors incoming requests, watching for bots/crawlers scanning for vulnerabilities. Any bot activity and the crawler is blocked for a specified amount of time (10 minutes by default). The end result is a pretty good defense against probing scripts, crawlers and bots.

Supports Cloudflare & other Proxies

Installation

1. Install the package via Composer:

   composer require marcvanh/laravel-bot-block

2. (Optional) Publish the configuration file (for customization):

   php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Marcvanh\LaravelBotBlock\LaravelBotBlockServiceProvider"

ideas: move "illuminate/support" to require-dev consider only "web" group for middleware: // $kernel->pushMiddlewareToGroup('web', \Marcvanh\LaravelBotBlock\Middleware\BotBlockMiddleware::class);