straightdigital

AI Bot Monitor tracks and logs visits from major AI crawlers, search bots, and social preview bots — such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Googlebot, Bingbot, Paddle/Bytespider, and Meta/Facebook.
It offers a clean admin dashboard showing today’s activity, an AI-Layer overview highlighting key retrieval signatures (including Chrome/141 used by modern AI assistants), automatic log rotation, and a one-click ZIP export.
Features: 
* Detects AI, Search, and Social bots (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Googlebot, Bingbot, Paddle, etc.) 
* AI-Layer overview (incl. Chrome/141, GPTBot, CCBot, PerplexityBot) 
* Daily auto-rotation (keeps last 30 days) 
* Admin dashboard with recent activity table 
* ZIP export of all logs 
* Single + Multisite compatible 
* Works as standard plugin or MU-plugin 
* Path-safe (<code>plugin_dir_path()</code> / uploads dir) and sanitized inputs

AI Bot Monitor

Tracks and logs AI, Search and Social bots including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Googlebot, Bing and Meta crawlers.

botstracker

Bots Tracker is a custom-built plugin designed to:
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<li>Detect and log visits from search engine bots and crawlers.</li>
<li>Store visits in a dedicated database table for analysis.</li>
<li>Display detailed bot visits inside WordPress Admin (with filters, pagination, and per-URL crawl budget).</li>
<li>Compare crawl budget between two time ranges (current vs previous period).</li>
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Main features:
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Bot Detection & Logging
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<li>Detects various bots (Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, etc.) using User-Agent signatures.</li>
<li>Saves bot name, visited URL path, IP address, and visit time to a custom database table.</li>
</ul>
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Admin Dashboard Pages
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<li>Main Report: paginate and filter bot visits, with search by URL, bot name, and date range.</li>
<li>Crawl Budget by URL: aggregate visits per URL with total hits, unique bots, and first/last visit times.</li>
<li>Comparative Report: compare total crawl budget between current and previous periods.</li>
</ul>
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Clean Uninstall
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<li>On plugin deletion, the custom database table and plugin options are removed from WordPress to keep your database clean.</li>
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Settings & Data Management
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<li>Configure how long bot visit logs are stored (data retention in days).</li>
<li>Enable or disable bot filtering to store only selected bots (e.g., only Googlebot and Bingbot) or to exclude specific bots.</li>
<li>Run on-demand database optimization for the bot visits table directly from the settings page.</li>
<li>Manually delete old records using a one-click cleanup tool.</li>
<li>Automatic cleanup via WP-Cron based on your configured retention period.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin stores the following data about bot visits in a custom database table: 
– Bot name (derived from the User-Agent string) 
– Bot IP address 
– Visited URL path 
– Visit timestamp
No data is sent to any third-party servers. This plugin tracks bots only, not human visitors.

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