From fdad7e12ad33a98e085c44255f3b208dca3e66ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Giehl Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:33:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Piwik is now Matomo --- README.md | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b4055644..e3ffed90 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ -This is a community-contributed list of [referrer spammers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer_spam) maintained by [Piwik](http://piwik.org/), the leading open source web analytics platform. +This is a community-contributed list of [referrer spammers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer_spam) maintained by [Matomo](https://matomo.org/), the leading open source web analytics platform. ## Usage The list is stored in this repository in `spammers.txt`. This text file contains one host per line. -You can [download this file manually](https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist/blob/master/spammers.txt), download the [whole folder as zip](https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist/archive/master.zip) or clone the repository using git: +You can [download this file manually](https://github.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist/blob/master/spammers.txt), download the [whole folder as zip](https://github.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist/archive/master.zip) or clone the repository using git: ``` -git clone https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist.git +git clone https://github.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist.git ``` ### PHP @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ git clone https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist.git If you are using PHP, you can also install the list through Composer: ``` -composer require piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist +composer require matomo/referrer-spam-blacklist ``` Parsing the file should be pretty easy using your favorite language. Beware that the file can contain empty lines. @@ -54,21 +54,21 @@ Now as a daily cron job so the list stays up to date: ``` -### In Piwik +### In Matomo (formerly Piwik) -This list is included in each [Piwik](http://piwik.org) release so that referrer spam is filtered automatically. Piwik will also automatically update this list to its latest version every week. +This list is included in each [Matomo](https://matomo.org) release so that referrer spam is filtered automatically. Matomo will also automatically update this list to its latest version every week. ## Contributing -To add a new referrer spammer to the list, [click here to edit the spammers.txt file](https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist/edit/master/spammers.txt) and select `Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request. `. Alternatively you can create a [new issue](https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist/issues/new). In your issue or pull request please explain where the referrer domain appeared and why you think it is a spammer. **Please open one pull request per new domain**. +To add a new referrer spammer to the list, [click here to edit the spammers.txt file](https://github.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist/edit/master/spammers.txt) and select `Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request. `. Alternatively you can create a [new issue](https://github.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist/issues/new). In your issue or pull request please explain where the referrer domain appeared and why you think it is a spammer. **Please open one pull request per new domain**. If you open a pull request, it is appreciated if you keep one hostname per line, keep the list ordered alphabetically, and use [Linux line endings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline). -Please [search](https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist/issues) if somebody already reported the host before opening a new one. +Please [search](https://github.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist/issues) if somebody already reported the host before opening a new one. ### Subdomains -Piwik does sub-string matching on domain names from this list, so adding `semalt.com` is enough to block all subdomain referrers too, such as `semalt.semalt.com`. +Matomo does sub-string matching on domain names from this list, so adding `semalt.com` is enough to block all subdomain referrers too, such as `semalt.semalt.com`. However, there are cases where you'd only want to add a subdomain but not the root domain. For example, add `referrerspammer.tumblr.com` but not `tumblr.com`, otherwise all `*.tumblr.com` sites would be affected.