Kebo Guard
A free tool that helps mod authors find copies of their own mods that were re-uploaded without permission.
Seeing “KeboGuard” in your logs?
Requests from Kebo Guard identify themselves with the user agent
KeboGuard/0.1.0 (+https://guard.kebo-mods.de/bot). This page explains what it does and how to reach us.
Technical details about the crawler →
What Kebo Guard does
- It reads public pages of mod mirror sites and compares them with the mods of authors who use Kebo Guard.
- Authors verify their identity with their Nexus Mods account. Only mods published by that account can be watched.
- When a match is found, the author decides whether it is their work. If so, the author sends a takedown notice in their own name, from their own e-mail address. Kebo Guard never sends notices itself and never acts on behalf of Nexus Mods.
How it behaves on your site
- It follows
robots.txt(user agentKeboGuardor*). - At most one request every few seconds per site.
- It never downloads files and never follows download links.
- It does not try to get around access controls such as login walls or bot challenges.
Received a notice?
Notices are sent and signed by the rights holder named in them. Please reply to the address given in the notice. If you believe a notice was sent in error or in someone else’s name, write to legal@kebo-mods.de with the reference number.
For mod authors
Kebo Guard is in testing. It will be available for download here and on Nexus Mods.