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PHP SDK for the YEB Bot Detection API. Detect bots, crawlers and automated traffic.

Works standalone (plain PHP) or with Laravel (Facade + auto-discovery).

Requirements

PHP 8.1+
cURL extension
YEB API Key (free tier available)

Installation

composer require yebto/bot-detect-api

Standalone Usage

use Yebto\BotDetectAPI\BotDetectAPI;

$api = new BotDetectAPI(['key' => 'your-api-key']);
$result = $api->detect();

Laravel Usage

Add your API key to .env:

YEB_KEY_ID=your-api-key

Use via Facade:

use BotDetectAPI;

$result = BotDetectAPI::detect();

Or via dependency injection:

use Yebto\BotDetectAPI\BotDetectAPI;

public function handle(BotDetectAPI $api)
{
    $result = $api->detect();
}

Publish Config

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=yebto-bot-detect-config

Available Methods

Method	Description
`detect()`	General bot detection
`google()`	Verify Googlebot
`bing()`	Verify Bingbot
`openai()`	Verify OpenAI bot
`yandex()`	Verify Yandex bot
`duck()`	Verify DuckDuckGo bot
`qwant()`	Verify Qwant bot
`meta()`	Verify Meta bot
`seznam()`	Verify Seznam bot

All methods accept an optional $extra array parameter for additional API options.

Error Handling

use Yebto\ApiClient\Exceptions\ApiException;
use Yebto\ApiClient\Exceptions\AuthenticationException;
use Yebto\ApiClient\Exceptions\RateLimitException;

try {
    $result = $api->detect();
} catch (AuthenticationException $e) {
    // Missing or invalid API key (401)
} catch (RateLimitException $e) {
    // Too many requests (429)
} catch (ApiException $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
    echo $e->getHttpCode();
}

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