Detect, monitor, and respond to AI crawlers in real time. Lightweight WordPress plugin with honeypot detection, per-IP rules, and six response strategies.
AI Bot Tracker catches crawlers that bypass robots.txt by using honeypot traps and behavioral analysis, not just user-agent strings.
Auto-generated hidden paths that only bots follow. No legitimate user will ever see them. Customize up to 5 honeypot URLs on the Protect tier and above.
See every AI crawler hit as it happens. Full dashboard with IP, user agent, request path, timestamp, and detection method.
Set custom response strategies for specific IPs. Whitelist your own crawlers, block known bad actors, tarpit the suspicious ones.
Full sortable, filterable table of every page AI bots have visited. Filter by date range, specific bot, or URL pattern. Export to CSV.
Sub-millisecond detection overhead. No external API calls, no JavaScript injection, no impact on your visitors' experience.
Get notified about honeypot intrusions, auto-blocks, and crawl anomalies via email. Stay informed without checking the dashboard.
Tiered thresholds automatically block bots based on behavior. Unknown bots blocked on first honeypot hit, known bots after a configurable threshold, whitelisted bots never.
See where crawlers come from. Country and city for every bot visit using MaxMind GeoLite2. Identify rogue scrapers from unexpected regions.
URL-level crawl insights, velocity trends, sitemap coverage analysis, and crawl health diagnostics. Find 404 waste, redirect waste, and stale re-crawls.
Catch bots that ignore your robots.txt. Trap paths listed as Disallow are only visited by non-compliant crawlers. A second detection layer beyond honeypots.
Programmatic access to detection data. Build custom integrations, export to your analytics stack, or feed into your security pipeline.
Forward-confirmed reverse DNS validates that bots are who they claim to be. Catches spoofed user agents pretending to be Googlebot or other crawlers.
Export all your tracking data, settings, IP rules, and alerts to JSON. Import on another site or restore after a migration. Merge or replace modes.
Search "AI Bot Tracker" in your WordPress plugin directory and activate. No configuration required for basic detection.
A hidden path is created on your site that only AI crawlers will follow. No passwords, no manual setup, no impact on real visitors.
View detections in your dashboard. Upgrade to Protect for active defense: block, tarpit, rate-limit, serve decoy content, or shadowban.
Choose the right strategy for each bot. Mix and match per IP.
Record the visit silently. No interference.
Hard deny. Bot gets a forbidden response.
Slow-drip response that wastes crawler resources.
429 after threshold. Controls crawl velocity.
Serve fake data. Pollute the training set.
Bot thinks it succeeded. Gets nothing useful.
Full bot detection is free forever. Paid plans unlock active defense, deep analytics, and multi-site management.
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Free forever. No credit card required. Install in under 2 minutes.
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