René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Many bots not being detected as bots","articleBody":"The user-agent string `Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)` fits all standards for bot declaration, but is not being detected as a bot:\n\n```\n\u003e\u003e\u003e ua=user_agents.parse('Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)')\n\u003e\u003e\u003e ua.is_bot\nFalse\n```\n\nIs there some reason why this library isn't using the presence of `r'\\+https?://'` as a bot/spider indicator?","author":{"url":"https://github.com/fluffy-critter","@type":"Person","name":"fluffy-critter"},"datePublished":"2025-12-29T03:45:25.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/134/python-user-agents/issues/134"}