Alternative for fail2ban fake gooblebot detection when getting the error ImportError: No module named fail2ban.server.filter

apache-fakegooglebot

#!/usr/bin/python
# Inspired by https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/When+Google+isnt+Google/15968/
#
# Written in Python to reuse built-in Python batteries and not depend on
# presence of host and cut commands
#
import sys
import socket

def process_args(argv):
    if len(argv) != 2:
       sys.stderr.write("Please provide a single IP as an argument. Got: %s\n"
                        % (argv[1:]))
       sys.exit(2)

    ip = argv[1]

    try:
        socket.inet_aton(ip)
        # legal
    except socket.error:
        sys.stderr.write("Argument must be a single valid IP. Got: %s\n"
                        % ip)
        sys.exit(3)
    return ip

def is_googlebot(ip):
    import re

    host_res = socket.gethostbyaddr(ip)
    if host_res:
        host = host_res[0]
        sys.exit(0 if (host and re.match('crawl-.*\.googlebot\.com', host)) els$
    else:
        sys.exit(1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    is_googlebot(process_args(sys.argv))