traefik-crawlers-statistics/crawler-alert.py
Sergei Poljanski 3b80ddeba0
Include DNS/ASN-verified crawlers in the path breakdown
The path breakdown was populated only inside the IP-range branch, so
it silently covered one of the two verification methods. Vendors
confirmed by PTR or ASN - YouBot, Amazonbot, Meta - were counted in
their own table but contributed nothing to the only output that shows
what crawlers actually fetch. On the sample instance that hid roughly
40% of the verified requests from the path list.

Collect paths per address during the log pass and merge them once the
address is confirmed, whichever method confirms it. Private-source
hits are excluded, since those addresses are never judged either way.

Move the section to the end of the report and retitle it: it now spans
both tables above, so placing it under the IP-range table implied a
narrower scope than it has.

Assisted-by: Claude:opus-5
2026-08-11 05:22:14 +04:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Crawler watch for a Traefik-fronted Forgejo (or any Traefik site).
Separates real AI crawlers from traffic that only claims to be, by
checking the source IP against each vendor's published range list.
Modes:
(default) daily threshold alert: mail only if yesterday exceeded
CRAWLER_THRESHOLD requests
--weekly summary: always mail stats for the past 7 days
--dry-run print instead of mailing (combinable with --weekly)
Configuration is by environment variable; see README.md. The only
value with no sensible default is CRAWLER_RECIPIENT.
"""
import configparser, glob, gzip, ipaddress, json, os, re, smtplib, socket, subprocess, sys, urllib.request
from collections import Counter
from datetime import date, timedelta
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
# --- configuration ------------------------------------------------------
THRESHOLD = int(os.environ.get("CRAWLER_THRESHOLD", "100000"))
RECIPIENT = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_RECIPIENT", "")
SITE = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_SITE", "this site")
LOG_GLOB = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_LOG", "/var/log/traefik/access.log*")
# Traefik router name to filter on, e.g. "forgejo@docker". Empty = all
# traffic reaching Traefik, which is what you want for a single-site host.
ROUTER = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_ROUTER", "")
# Container to read SMTP settings from (Forgejo/Gitea app.ini [mailer]).
# Set CRAWLER_SMTP_* instead to configure SMTP directly.
MAIL_CONTAINER = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_MAIL_CONTAINER", "forgejo")
MAIL_INI = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_MAIL_INI", "/data/gitea/conf/app.ini")
WEEKLY = "--weekly" in sys.argv
DRY = "--dry-run" in sys.argv
if not RECIPIENT and not DRY:
sys.exit("CRAWLER_RECIPIENT is not set (no --dry-run either); refusing "
"to run. See README.md.")
# --- verified-crawler support -------------------------------------------
# Vendors publishing machine-readable IP ranges. A UA token alone proves
# nothing: on the instance this was written for, ~83% of AI-bot-labelled
# traffic came from hosts outside these ranges. Only IP-verified hits count.
RANGE_SOURCES = {
"openai": ["https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json",
"https://openai.com/gptbot.json",
"https://openai.com/searchbot.json"],
"anthropic": ["https://claude.com/crawling/bots.json"],
"perplexity":["https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json"],
"apple": ["https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json"],
"google": ["https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/special-crawlers.json",
"https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json",
"https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers.json",
"https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers-google.json"],
}
# UA token -> vendor whose ranges must contain the source IP
BOT_VENDOR = {
"ChatGPT-User": "openai", "GPTBot": "openai", "OAI-SearchBot": "openai",
"ClaudeBot": "anthropic", "Claude-User": "anthropic", "Claude-SearchBot": "anthropic",
"PerplexityBot": "perplexity", "Perplexity-User": "perplexity",
"Applebot-Extended": "apple", "Applebot": "apple",
"Googlebot": "google", "Google-Extended": "google", "GoogleOther": "google",
}
# --- reverse-DNS verification -------------------------------------------
# For vendors that publish no IP ranges. The check is forward-confirmed
# (FCrDNS): PTR of the address must end in one of the vendor's domains,
# AND that hostname must resolve back to the same address. The forward
# step is what makes it meaningful - a PTR record alone is set by
# whoever controls the address block, so it proves nothing on its own.
BOT_RDNS = {
"Amazonbot": (".crawl.amazonbot.amazon",),
"meta-externalagent": (".facebook.com", ".fbsv.net"),
"meta-externalfetcher": (".facebook.com", ".fbsv.net"),
"FacebookBot": (".facebook.com", ".fbsv.net"),
"YouBot": (".search.you.com",),
"Bytespider": (".bytedance.com", ".byteoversea.com"),
"PetalBot": (".petalsearch.com", ".aspiegel.com"),
"DuckAssistBot": (".duckduckgo.com",),
# Apple and Google publish ranges, but also answer rDNS; listed so a
# range miss can still be resolved when the published file is stale.
"Applebot": (".applebot.apple.com",),
"Googlebot": (".googlebot.com", ".google.com"),
}
# rDNS is slow (two lookups per address), so only unique IPs are probed
# and results are memoised for the run.
RDNS_MAX = int(os.environ.get("CRAWLER_RDNS_MAX", "400"))
RDNS_ENABLE = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_RDNS", "1") != "0"
# --- ASN verification, for single-tenant networks only -------------------
# An ASN match usually proves nothing: genuine YouBot and genuine
# Amazonbot both live in AS14618, which is also every EC2 instance a
# spoofer could rent. It is only evidence when the ASN belongs to the
# vendor exclusively and sells no compute in it. Meta qualifies -
# AS32934 is Meta's own network and cannot be rented - and Meta
# publishes no IP range file (their docs say to email webmasters@meta.com),
# so without this there is nothing to check them against at all.
BOT_ASN = {
"meta-externalagent": {"32934"},
"meta-externalfetcher": {"32934"},
"FacebookBot": {"32934"},
"facebookexternalhit": {"32934"},
}
ASN_ENABLE = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_ASN", "1") != "0"
# Team Cymru's DNS interface: <reversed-addr>.origin[6].asn.cymru.com TXT
CYMRU4 = "origin.asn.cymru.com"
CYMRU6 = "origin6.asn.cymru.com"
CACHE = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_CACHE", "/var/cache/crawler-alert/ranges.json")
CF_URL = "https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-v4"
# claude.com and cloudflare.com sit behind Cloudflare, which 403s the
# default Python-urllib UA. Send a real one.
UA = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; crawler-alert/1.0; +https://codeberg.org/)"
def fetch(url, timeout=20):
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": UA})
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as r:
return r.read()
def load_ranges():
"""Fetch vendor prefixes; fall back to cache so a vendor outage
degrades the report instead of breaking the mail."""
out, stale = {}, []
for vendor, urls in RANGE_SOURCES.items():
nets = []
for u in urls:
try:
for p in json.loads(fetch(u)).get("prefixes", []):
for k, v in p.items():
if k.startswith("ipv"):
nets.append(v)
except Exception:
stale.append(vendor)
if nets:
out[vendor] = nets
cf = []
try:
cf = [l.strip() for l in fetch(CF_URL).decode().splitlines() if l.strip()]
except Exception:
stale.append("cloudflare")
try:
cached = json.load(open(CACHE))
except Exception:
cached = {}
for vendor in RANGE_SOURCES:
if vendor not in out and vendor in cached.get("vendors", {}):
out[vendor] = cached["vendors"][vendor]
if not cf:
cf = cached.get("cloudflare", [])
if out:
try:
os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(CACHE), exist_ok=True)
json.dump({"vendors": out, "cloudflare": cf}, open(CACHE, "w"))
except Exception:
pass
# bucket by first octet so lookups stay cheap over ~1425 prefixes
idx = {}
for vendor, nets in out.items():
b = {}
for s in nets:
n = ipaddress.ip_network(s)
b.setdefault(int(n.network_address) >> 24 if n.version == 4 else -1, []).append(n)
idx[vendor] = b
cfnets = [ipaddress.ip_network(s) for s in cf]
return idx, cfnets, sorted(set(stale))
def in_index(idx_v, addr):
if idx_v is None:
return False
key = int(addr) >> 24 if addr.version == 4 else -1
return any(addr in n for n in idx_v.get(key, []))
_asn_cache = {}
def asn_of(ip):
"""Origin ASN for an address via Team Cymru's DNS interface.
Returns the ASN as a string, or "" if it cannot be determined.
Needs `dig`; absence degrades to no ASN evidence, never an error.
"""
if ip in _asn_cache:
return _asn_cache[ip]
asn = ""
try:
a = ipaddress.ip_address(ip)
if a.version == 4:
q = ".".join(reversed(ip.split("."))) + "." + CYMRU4
else:
nibbles = a.exploded.replace(":", "")
q = ".".join(reversed(nibbles)) + "." + CYMRU6
out = subprocess.run(["dig", "+short", "+time=3", "+tries=1", q, "TXT"],
capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=12).stdout
# "32934 | 2a03:2880:f814::/48 | IE | ripencc | 2011-08-22"
first = out.strip().strip('"').split("|")[0].strip()
if first.split(" ")[0].isdigit():
asn = first.split(" ")[0]
except (OSError, ValueError, subprocess.SubprocessError):
pass
_asn_cache[ip] = asn
return asn
_rdns_cache = {}
def fcrdns(ip, suffixes):
"""Forward-confirmed reverse DNS.
PTR must end in one of `suffixes`, and the name it gives must resolve
back to `ip`. Returns (ok, hostname). Without the forward step this
would only prove the address owner can write their own PTR record.
"""
key = (ip, suffixes)
if key in _rdns_cache:
return _rdns_cache[key]
result = (False, "", "mismatch")
try:
host = socket.gethostbyaddr(ip)[0].rstrip(".").lower()
if any(host.endswith(s) or host == s.lstrip(".") for s in suffixes):
_, _, addrs = socket.gethostbyname_ex(host)
try:
v6 = socket.getaddrinfo(host, None, socket.AF_INET6)
addrs = addrs + [a[4][0] for a in v6]
except OSError:
pass
if ip in addrs:
result = (True, host, "ok")
else:
result = (False, host, "mismatch")
else:
result = (False, host, "mismatch")
except OSError:
# No PTR at all. This is absence of evidence, not evidence of
# forgery: Meta's IPv6 crawler space, for one, publishes no PTR
# records. Kept distinct so a real mismatch stays visible.
result = (False, "", "no-ptr")
_rdns_cache[key] = result
return result
days = [date.today() - timedelta(days=i) for i in range(7 if WEEKLY else 1, 0, -1)]
stamps = [d.strftime("%d/%b/%Y") for d in days]
RANGES, CFNETS, STALE = (load_ranges() if WEEKLY else ({}, [], []))
per_day = {s: [0, set()] for s in stamps}
repos = Counter()
uas = Counter()
verified = Counter() # bot -> IP-verified hits
spoofed = Counter() # bot -> UA claimed, IP outside vendor ranges
proxied = Counter() # bot -> arrived via Cloudflare, unverifiable
ver_paths = Counter() # paths fetched by verified bots
ver_ips = {} # bot -> set of verified source IPs
# rDNS-verified vendors: {bot: {ip: hits}}, resolved after the log pass
rdns_hits = {b: Counter() for b in BOT_RDNS}
rdns_proxied = Counter()
# {bot: {ip: Counter(path)}} - kept so that once an address is confirmed
# by DNS/ASN its paths can join the verified-path breakdown, which
# otherwise only ever showed IP-range-verified vendors.
rdns_paths = {b: {} for b in BOT_RDNS}
for path in sorted(glob.glob(LOG_GLOB)):
opener = gzip.open if path.endswith(".gz") else open
with opener(path, "rt", errors="replace") as f:
for line in f:
if ROUTER and ROUTER not in line:
continue
for s in stamps:
if s in line:
per_day[s][0] += 1
per_day[s][1].add(line.split(" ", 1)[0])
parts = line.split()
if len(parts) > 6 and parts[6].count("/") >= 2:
repos["/".join(parts[6].split("/")[1:3])] += 1
# Traefik CLF: ... "<referer>" "<user-agent>" <n> "<router>" ...
# Anchor on the request counter so this works whatever
# the router is called.
ua = re.search(r"\"[^\"]*\" \"([^\"]*)\" \d+ \"", line)
if ua:
u = ua.group(1)
m = re.search(r"(bot|crawler|spider|scrapy|externalagent|gpt|claude|perplexity)[\w./-]*", u, re.I)
uas[m.group(0) if m else ("(none)" if u == "-" else "(browser-like)")] += 1
if WEEKLY:
# longest token first so Applebot-Extended wins over Applebot
bot = next((b for b in sorted(BOT_VENDOR, key=len, reverse=True) if b in u), None)
if bot:
try:
addr = ipaddress.ip_address(parts[0])
except ValueError:
addr = None
if addr is None:
pass
elif any(addr in n for n in CFNETS):
proxied[bot] += 1
elif in_index(RANGES.get(BOT_VENDOR[bot]), addr):
verified[bot] += 1
ver_ips.setdefault(bot, set()).add(parts[0])
if len(parts) > 6:
ver_paths[parts[6][:60]] += 1
else:
spoofed[bot] += 1
if WEEKLY and RDNS_ENABLE:
rb = next((b for b in sorted(BOT_RDNS, key=len, reverse=True)
if b in u), None)
# skip if already counted by IP-range check
if rb and not (rb in BOT_VENDOR and rb == bot):
try:
a2 = ipaddress.ip_address(parts[0])
except ValueError:
a2 = None
if a2 is None:
pass
elif any(a2 in n for n in CFNETS):
rdns_proxied[rb] += 1
else:
rdns_hits[rb][parts[0]] += 1
if len(parts) > 6 and not a2.is_private:
rdns_paths[rb].setdefault(
parts[0], Counter())[parts[6][:60]] += 1
break
total = sum(v[0] for v in per_day.values())
all_ips = set().union(*(v[1] for v in per_day.values()))
# --- resolve rDNS candidates ---------------------------------------------
# One pass over unique addresses, busiest first, capped by RDNS_MAX so a
# flood of distinct forgeries cannot stall the report on DNS timeouts.
rdns_ok = Counter() # bot -> forward-confirmed by PTR
rdns_mismatch = Counter() # bot -> PTR exists but points elsewhere: forgery
rdns_noptr = Counter() # bot -> no PTR at all: cannot be judged by DNS
rdns_asn = Counter() # bot -> no PTR, but origin ASN is the vendor's
rdns_skipped = Counter() # bot -> hits left unresolved by the cap
rdns_private = Counter() # bot -> hits from RFC1918/loopback (see below)
rdns_ok_ips = {}
if WEEKLY and RDNS_ENABLE:
socket.setdefaulttimeout(3)
for bot, counter in rdns_hits.items():
budget = RDNS_MAX
for ip, hits in counter.most_common():
# A private source address means the real client IP never
# reached the log: something in front (Docker's bridge
# gateway, a local proxy) is rewriting it. Neither verified
# nor spoofed - the evidence simply is not there.
if ipaddress.ip_address(ip).is_private:
rdns_private[bot] += hits
continue
if budget <= 0:
rdns_skipped[bot] += hits
continue
budget -= 1
ok, _host, why = fcrdns(ip, BOT_RDNS[bot])
confirmed = False
if ok:
rdns_ok[bot] += hits
rdns_ok_ips.setdefault(bot, set()).add(ip)
confirmed = True
elif why == "no-ptr":
# Fall back to ASN, but only for vendors whose network is
# single-tenant (see BOT_ASN). Otherwise leave it unknown.
if ASN_ENABLE and bot in BOT_ASN and asn_of(ip) in BOT_ASN[bot]:
rdns_asn[bot] += hits
rdns_ok_ips.setdefault(bot, set()).add(ip)
confirmed = True
else:
rdns_noptr[bot] += hits
else:
rdns_mismatch[bot] += hits
if confirmed:
ver_paths.update(rdns_paths.get(bot, {}).get(ip, ()))
socket.setdefaulttimeout(None)
if not WEEKLY:
s0 = stamps[0]
count, ips = per_day[s0][0], len(per_day[s0][1])
print(f"{s0}: {count} requests, {ips} unique IPs (threshold {THRESHOLD})")
if DRY or count <= THRESHOLD:
sys.exit(0)
subject = f"{SITE}: {count} requests on {s0} (over {THRESHOLD}/day threshold)"
body = (f"Forgejo served {count} requests from {ips} unique IPs on {s0} - "
f"above the {THRESHOLD}/day watch threshold.\n\n"
"Time to consider Anubis (PoW challenge) in front of Forgejo.\n")
else:
lines = [f"{SITE} weekly crawler report ({stamps[0]} - {stamps[-1]})", ""]
lines.append(f"Total: {total} requests, {len(all_ips)} unique IPs")
lines.append(f"Daily threshold alert fires above {THRESHOLD} req/day (none = quiet week)")
lines.append("")
lines.append("Per day:")
for s in stamps:
lines.append(f" {s}: {per_day[s][0]:>7} requests, {len(per_day[s][1]):>6} unique IPs")
lines.append("")
lines.append("Top repos:")
for r, c in repos.most_common(5):
lines.append(f" {c:>7} {r}")
lines.append("")
lines.append("User-agent classes (browser-like = mostly the spoofing swarm):")
for u, c in uas.most_common(8):
lines.append(f" {c:>7} {u}")
lines.append("")
# --- legitimate (IP-verified) crawlers -------------------------------
lines.append("=" * 62)
lines.append("LEGITIMATE CRAWLERS (source IP inside vendor's published ranges)")
lines.append("=" * 62)
if STALE:
lines.append(f"NOTE: range fetch failed for {', '.join(STALE)} - used cache")
tv, ts, tp = sum(verified.values()), sum(spoofed.values()), sum(proxied.values())
claimed = tv + ts + tp
if not claimed:
lines.append(" No AI-bot user-agents seen this week.")
else:
lines.append(f" {'bot':<20}{'verified':>9}{'spoofed':>9}{'via CF':>8} {'IPs':>4}")
for bot in sorted(set(verified) | set(spoofed) | set(proxied),
key=lambda b: -(verified[b] + spoofed[b] + proxied[b])):
lines.append(f" {bot:<20}{verified[bot]:>9}{spoofed[bot]:>9}"
f"{proxied[bot]:>8} {len(ver_ips.get(bot, ())):>4}")
pct = tv / claimed * 100
lines.append("")
lines.append(f" {claimed} requests claimed an AI-bot identity; {tv} verified ({pct:.1f}%).")
lines.append(f" {ts} failed IP verification (spoofed). {tp} arrived via Cloudflare")
lines.append(" and cannot be verified by IP - not counted either way.")
# --- vendors verified by reverse DNS ---------------------------------
if RDNS_ENABLE and (rdns_ok or rdns_mismatch or rdns_noptr or rdns_asn
or rdns_proxied or rdns_private):
lines.append("")
lines.append("-" * 62)
lines.append("VERIFIED BY DNS / ASN (vendors publishing no IP ranges)")
lines.append("-" * 62)
lines.append(f" {'bot':<20}{'PTR ok':>7}{'ASN ok':>7}{'FORGED':>8}"
f"{'no-PTR':>7}{'CF':>6}{'priv':>7} {'IPs':>4}")
allbots = (set(rdns_ok) | set(rdns_mismatch) | set(rdns_noptr)
| set(rdns_asn) | set(rdns_proxied) | set(rdns_private))
for bot in sorted(allbots, key=lambda b: -(rdns_ok[b] + rdns_mismatch[b]
+ rdns_noptr[b] + rdns_asn[b]
+ rdns_proxied[b] + rdns_private[b])):
lines.append(f" {bot:<20}{rdns_ok[bot]:>7}{rdns_asn[bot]:>7}"
f"{rdns_mismatch[bot]:>8}{rdns_noptr[bot]:>7}"
f"{rdns_proxied[bot]:>6}{rdns_private[bot]:>7}"
f" {len(rdns_ok_ips.get(bot, ())):>4}")
if rdns_skipped:
sk = ", ".join(f"{b} {c}" for b, c in rdns_skipped.most_common(4))
lines.append(f" (unresolved, over CRAWLER_RDNS_MAX={RDNS_MAX}: {sk})")
lines.append("")
lines.append(" PTR ok forward-confirmed: PTR ends in a vendor domain AND")
lines.append(" that hostname resolves back to the same address.")
lines.append(" ASN ok no PTR, but the address sits in an ASN belonging")
lines.append(" solely to the vendor (Meta's AS32934). Only used")
lines.append(" where the ASN sells no compute - never for clouds.")
lines.append(" FORGED a PTR exists and points somewhere else. This is")
lines.append(" the only column that is evidence of forgery.")
lines.append(" no-PTR no PTR record and no usable ASN: unknown, not bad.")
if sum(rdns_private.values()):
lines.append(" priv logged source was RFC1918: a proxy or Docker")
lines.append(" bridge masked the client. Unjudgeable. See README.")
# --- what the verified crawlers actually fetched ---------------------
# Last, because it spans both tables above: an address only counts here
# once it has been confirmed, whether by IP range, PTR or ASN.
if ver_paths:
lines.append("")
lines.append("=" * 62)
lines.append("TOP PATHS FETCHED BY VERIFIED CRAWLERS (all methods)")
lines.append("=" * 62)
for p, c in ver_paths.most_common(12):
lines.append(f" {c:>6} {p}")
body = "\n".join(lines) + "\n"
subject = f"{SITE} weekly crawler report: {total} requests, {len(all_ips)} IPs"
if DRY:
print(subject); print(); print(body)
sys.exit(0)
# SMTP settings: use CRAWLER_SMTP_* if given, otherwise borrow them from
# a Forgejo/Gitea app.ini [mailer] section so there is no second copy of
# the credentials to keep in sync.
if os.environ.get("CRAWLER_SMTP_ADDR"):
addr = os.environ["CRAWLER_SMTP_ADDR"]
port = int(os.environ.get("CRAWLER_SMTP_PORT", "587"))
user = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_SMTP_USER", "")
passwd = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_SMTP_PASSWORD", "")
sender = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_SMTP_FROM", user or RECIPIENT)
proto = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_SMTP_PROTOCOL", "smtp+starttls")
else:
ini = subprocess.run(["docker", "exec", MAIL_CONTAINER, "cat", MAIL_INI],
capture_output=True, text=True).stdout
if not ini.strip():
sys.exit(f"could not read {MAIL_INI} from container "
f"'{MAIL_CONTAINER}' and CRAWLER_SMTP_ADDR is unset")
cp = configparser.ConfigParser(interpolation=None, strict=False)
cp.read_string("[DEFAULT]\n" + ini)
m = cp["mailer"]
proto = m.get("PROTOCOL", "smtps").strip()
addr, port = m.get("SMTP_ADDR").strip(), int(m.get("SMTP_PORT", "465").strip())
user, passwd = m.get("USER", "").strip(), m.get("PASSWD", "").strip().strip("`\"")
sender = m.get("FROM", user).strip()
msg = MIMEText(body)
msg["Subject"], msg["From"], msg["To"] = subject, sender, RECIPIENT
if proto == "smtps":
s = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(addr, port, timeout=30)
else:
s = smtplib.SMTP(addr, port, timeout=30)
if proto != "smtp": # plain smtp = no TLS (local relay)
s.starttls()
if user: # unauthenticated local relays exist
s.login(user, passwd)
s.sendmail(sender, [RECIPIENT], msg.as_string())
s.quit()
print(f"mailed to {RECIPIENT}")