How to block Trendiction Bot
Operated by Trendiction S.A.. Talkwalker delivers the consumer insights that help brands drive business impact. In a world full of conversations, the most successful global brands have switched to Talkwalker because we provide them with a powerful software platform to uncover, understand and derive the most valuable insights from internal and external data. Our listening and analytics platform enables more than 2,500 companies worldwide to protect their brands, measure their impact and gain the key consumer insights that drive purchase decisions.
How it identifies itself
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.0; trendictionbot0.5.0; trendiction search; http://www.trendiction.de/bot; please let us know of any problems; web at trendiction.com) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/3.0.0.11
robots.txt
What the agent asks to be told. It obeys this or it does not — nothing enforces it.
User-agent: trendictionbot Disallow: /
nginx
In the server block, then reload.
# In the server block. 403 rather than 444: a closed connection tells the
# operator nothing, and an agent that gets a status code can log it.
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(trendictionbot|Trendiction|Trendiction Bot)") {
return 403;
}
Apache
In .htaccess or the vhost.
BrowserMatchNoCase "trendictionbot" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Trendiction" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Trendiction Bot" bad_bot
<RequireAll>
Require all granted
Require not env bad_bot
</RequireAll>
Cloudflare
Security → WAF → Custom rules.
# Security → WAF → Custom rules, action: Block (http.user_agent contains "trendictionbot") or (http.user_agent contains "Trendiction") or (http.user_agent contains "Trendiction Bot")
WordPress
A child theme's functions.php, or a small plugin.
// functions.php of a child theme, or a small plugin. Runs before WordPress
// builds the page, so a blocked agent costs one PHP process and no queries.
add_action('init', function () {
$agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? '';
foreach (['trendictionbot', 'Trendiction', 'Trendiction Bot'] as $needle) {
if (stripos($agent, $needle) !== false) {
status_header(403);
exit('Blocked: Trendiction Bot');
}
}
});
robots.txt is a request. The rules below it are the wall.
Trendiction Bot publishes a token, so the directive above will work for as long as it keeps honouring it — and nothing except its own good manners makes it. The server rules match on a header the requester sets, which stops the agent that says who it is and not the one that copies somebody else's name. Botscope verifies identity against DNS and published address ranges, records which check decided each request, and shows you the ones that lied.