Block AI scrapers and unwanted crawlers with bot rules, robots.txt and noai meta controls, per-page settings, and basic rate limiting.

WindCodex

<p><strong>ScraperBlock</strong> is a lightweight AI bot blocker plugin for WordPress. It helps prevent content scraping by known crawler user-agents while keeping setup simple for site owners.</p>
<p>Use layered controls in one settings screen:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bot and scraper user-agent blocking</li>
<li>robots.txt blocking directives</li>
<li>Optional Apache <code>.htaccess</code> blocking</li>
<li>noai / meta tag output</li>
<li>Per-page protection control</li>
<li>Basic block log and dashboard count</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why Use ScraperBlock</h4>
<ul>
<li>Protect blog posts, product pages, and site content from scraping bots.</li>
<li>Reduce unwanted automated traffic with practical bot filtering.</li>
<li>Control protections with clear toggles and simple defaults.</li>
<li>Monitor recent blocked activity without extra services.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Free Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enable Protection (master switch)</li>
<li>robots.txt blocking</li>
<li><code>.htaccess</code> blocking (Apache)</li>
<li>noai / meta tags for AI bot opt-out</li>
<li>Per-page control on posts/pages</li>
<li>Basic rate limiting</li>
<li>Custom user-agents (one signature per line)</li>
<li>Default bot list (50+ known bots)</li>
<li>Basic block log (last 50 events)</li>
<li>Live Dashboard (basic last 24-hour count)</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate ScraperBlock.</li>
<li>Go to <strong>Settings > ScraperBlock</strong>.</li>
<li>Enable the protection modules you want.</li>
<li>Save settings.</li>
<li>Review blocked requests in Logs and dashboard summary.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.8+</li>
<li>PHP 7.4+</li>
<li>Apache required only for <code>.htaccess</code> mode</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>ScraperBlock stores technical security data (for example IP, user-agent, URL path, reason, action, and timestamp) in your WordPress database for local monitoring. The free plugin does not require a third-party API.</p>


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