How to Measure and Audit Bot Traffic by HTTP Request Logs

Analyse NGINX logs using Python

Cristian Dobre
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readApr 14, 2024

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About 30% of Internet traffic nowadays is generated by bots, spiders, and crawlers. These are automated programs that scan the Web for various purposes.

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Some of these programs perform essential Internet tasks, such as:

  • search engine indexing

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