crawler-hunter

It is a simple but effective plugin. Stops spam bots by checking browser content. You…

Author:naimgr83 (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.6
WordPress version tested:6.8.1
Plugin version:1.3
Added to WordPress repository:27-10-2022
Last updated:27-05-2025
Rating, %:90
Rated by:2
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Total downloads:1 205
Active installs:10+
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Bots and web crawlers coming to your site check the content of the full user agent string, and those that are not on the whitelist will be blocked.
AI crawlers are also blocked.

In addition, you can manually blacklist the IP address. If you enable the automatic IP blocking option, IP addresses that make more than 5 requests in 1 minute will be blocked for 240 minutes (4 hours) by default.
You can change these values here.

Blocked bots include:

  • GPTBot
  • ClaudeBot
  • Amazonbot
  • SemrushBot
  • MJ12bot
  • and more bots…

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