This plugin tracks robots to your blog, it also provide information about how many people subscribe to your blog via RSS services like Bloglines.

1. Downlaod code package
2. Unzip and uploadto plugins directory
3. Install the plugins
4. Put <%BotTracking%> somewhere in the skin to count visit and show recent visit robots
5. Put <%BotTracking(showSub)%> somewhere in the skin near your feed icon to show how many people subscribe to this blog
6. If ajaxized refresh is desired, also add <%BotTracking(script)%> in the skin’s header
7. Setup a cron job to update number of subscriber information periodically. see example

• <%BotTracking%> - count and show bot visit
• <%BotTracking(quiet)%> - slient mode, do not show bots, for use in RSS feed
• <%BotTracking(showSub)%> - show number of subscribers to the current blog. Usage: “<%BotTracking(showSub)%> subscribers to this blog”
• <%BotTracking(showSub,y)%> - show number of subscribers to a particular blog, y == blogid

• number of recent bots to show
• To add/del/mod list of bots, edit bottracking/bots.txt
• To add/del/mod display ignore list, edit bottracking/noshow_bots.txt (This tell the plugin to not display some bots visit, usually when you have some robots keeps visiting and kidnap the recent visit bot display)

• v0.3 latest (first posted to wiki)
• v0.4
  • added admin menu
  • remove count in table
  • improve bot scanning code
  • add agent name column in table
  • add subscriber counter
  • add bot display ignore list
  • move list of bots to file
• v0.5
  • limited subscriber info for the past 24 hours
  • add pager for stats in admin menu
  • detect new bot that report “subscriber” info
  • optimize admin menu

NP_BotTracking version 0.5 works with Nucleus CMS 3.31 - 2007-10-29 admun