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[Feature Request] May include a bot detection library rather than a self maintained list?

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
express, javascript
Domain
backend

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating the self-maintained user-agent bot list and the dependency configuration, then review how the Express middleware performs detection. Done means the middleware uses the suggested third-party library and existing bot-detection behavior is covered by the project’s relevant checks.

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Description

I think it will be good option to use a thirdparty library to detect the user agent as a bot or not. This way there will be lot of more updates will happen often and no bots will be left out.

Suggestion

https://github.com/omrilotan/isbot

Dominant language
JavaScript
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