Crawler filtering

You might want to use crawlers to check content or perhaps do performance tests. These bots generate traffic which you often do not want to receive in your data. Therefore, it is possible to add a parameter to the url where the bot should start.

<url>?harvest_is_bot=1

If you use the parameter above, Harvest will process each event, but it will not distribute the data.

Also, the isBot property will be added to the harvest_user cookie. This way any event the bot generates will be blocked, even though they navigate to a page that does not have the harvest_is_bot parameter anymore.