Laravel bot detection and email validation

composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;

class BlockBots
{
    public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next)
    {
        try {
            $response = Http::withToken(config('services.turing.key'))
                ->timeout(3)
                ->post('https://uat.turing-api.com/v1/bot-check', [
                    'ip' => $request->ip(),
                    'user_agent' => $request->userAgent() ?? '',
                ]);
        } catch (\Throwable $e) {
            // Fail open: an outage on our side must never take your site down.
            Log::warning('turing unreachable', ['error' => $e->getMessage()]);
            return $next($request);
        }

        if (! $response->successful()) {
            return $next($request);
        }

        if ($response->json('is_bot') === true) {
            return response()->json([
                'error' => 'Automated traffic is not permitted.',
                'reasons' => $response->json('reasons') ?? [],
            ], 403);
        }

        return $next($request);
    }
}

// bootstrap/app.php  (Laravel 11+)
->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
    $middleware->alias(['bot' => \App\Http\Middleware\BlockBots::class]);
})

// routes/web.php
Route::post('/signup', SignupController::class)->middleware('bot');

// config/services.php
'turing' => ['key' => env('TURING_API_KEY')],

curl -X POST https://uat.turing-api.com/v1/bot-check \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ip":"52.1.2.3","user_agent":"curl/8.4.0"}'

import requests

HEADERS = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"}

response = requests.post(
    "https://uat.turing-api.com/v1/bot-check",
    headers=HEADERS,
    json={"ip": "52.1.2.3", "user_agent": "curl/8.4.0"},
    timeout=5,
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

const response = await fetch("https://uat.turing-api.com/v1/bot-check", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({"ip":"52.1.2.3","user_agent":"curl/8.4.0"}),
  signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5000),
});

if (!response.ok) throw new Error("turing: " + response.status);
console.log(await response.json());

$curl = curl_init("https://uat.turing-api.com/v1/bot-check");
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 5,
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => '{"ip":"52.1.2.3","user_agent":"curl/8.4.0"}',
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type: application/json",
    ],
]);

$body = curl_exec($curl);
$status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE);
curl_close($curl);

$verdict = $status === 200 ? json_decode($body, true) : null;
var_dump($verdict);

require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://uat.turing-api.com/v1/bot-check")
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request["Authorization"] = "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
request["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
request.body = { ip: "52.1.2.3", user_agent: "curl/8.4.0" }.to_json

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port,
                           use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https",
                           open_timeout: 5, read_timeout: 5) do |http|
  http.request(request)
end

puts JSON.parse(response.body)