Exclude specific IP Address during Python Script Import

Support & Bugs
1

Is there a way to specifically exclude an IP address when using the python import script? For example we want to exclude all entries from our monitoring system.

2

In the Piwik frontend just go Settings - Websites --> Global list of Excluded IPs

You can also specify “Excluded IPs” per site.

These values are taken into account during import as well real-time tracking.

3

We did it like this.

Constants.

BANNED_IPS = (
‘X.X.X.X’,
‘Y.Y.Y.Y’,
)

In class (at the beginning, first thing to drop):

class Parser(object):
""“
The Parser parses the lines in a specified file and inserts them into
a Queue.
”""

## All check_* methods are called for each hit and must return True if the
## hit can be imported, False otherwise.

def check_ip(self, hit):
    for x in BANNED_IPS:
            if hit.ip.find(x) != -1:
                return False
    return True

You can use it to drop more than one ip - whole class (simplified version)

example
192.168.0. -> this gives you all ip’s from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.0.255 :slight_smile: