crawlantix

<p>Crawlantix AI Bot Tracker monitors visits from 30+ AI crawlers and gives you visibility into how bots interact with your site. See which bots visit, what pages they crawl, and catch misbehaving bots with a built-in logging-only honeypot. Lightweight, privacy-first, and fully functional out of the box.</p>
<p><strong>Free forever — no artificial limits on bot detection.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Tracked Bots (30+):</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>GPTBot / ChatGPT-User / OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI)</li>
<li>ClaudeBot / Claude-Web / anthropic-ai (Anthropic)</li>
<li>Googlebot / Google-Extended (Google / Gemini)</li>
<li>bingbot (Microsoft / Copilot)</li>
<li>PerplexityBot (Perplexity)</li>
<li>DeepSeek, Qwen (Alibaba), Mistral AI</li>
<li>Applebot-Extended (Apple Intelligence)</li>
<li>Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta AI)</li>
<li>Bytespider (ByteDance)</li>
<li>CCBot (Common Crawl), Amazonbot, YouBot, DuckDuckBot</li>
<li>AI2Bot, Diffbot, Timpibot, PetalBot</li>
<li>SemrushBot, AhrefsBot, DataForSeoBot, MJ12bot, DotBot</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<h4>Lightweight Bot Detection (30+ Bots)</h4>
<p>Hooks into WordPress <code>init</code> with a priority-1 action. Bails immediately on non-AI User-Agents — zero performance cost for human visitors. All 30+ bots tracked.</p>
<h4>Dashboard with Charts</h4>
<p>Clean dashboard with trend chart and provider breakdown pie chart (Chart.js, bundled locally). Summary cards show total visits, unique bots, pages crawled, and daily averages. No external dependencies.</p>
<h4>Bot Activity Table</h4>
<p>Dedicated tab showing all detected bots with visits, bytes transferred, 24h sparklines, verification status, and honeypot hit counts.</p>
<h4>Crawled Pages</h4>
<p>See which pages bots visit most, which bots crawl them, and when they were last seen.</p>
<h4>Honeypot Endpoint (Logging Only)</h4>
<p>A CSS-hidden, aria-hidden, rel=nofollow link is injected in the footer. Only raw link-extracting bots will follow it. Visits are logged for transparency. Active defense (blocking, tarpit, rate-limit, decoy, shadowban) is reserved for the paid build.</p>
<h4>Bot Verification</h4>
<p>Reverse DNS (FCrDNS) verification for major bots — confirms Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc. are actually who they claim to be.</p>
<h4>Privacy First</h4>
<p>IP addresses are SHA-256 hashed with a per-install salt before storage. Raw IPs are never saved. Includes WordPress Privacy API exporter and eraser hooks so data-subject access and erasure requests can flow through the standard WordPress Tools <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Personal Data workflow.</p>
<h4>AI Discovery Layer</h4>
<p>Serves <code>ai-plugin.json</code> (a discovery manifest that tells visiting AI agents the site is monitored) and <code>llms.txt</code> / <code>llms-full.txt</code> (text content authored by the admin via WordPress pages with slugs <code>llms-txt</code> and <code>llms-full-txt</code>) at the site root.</p>
<h4>Data Retention</h4>
<p>Bot visit data is retained for 30 days. Older records are automatically pruned via WP-Cron.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the following external services:</p>
<h4>Reverse DNS Lookups</h4>
<p>The bot verification feature performs reverse DNS (FCrDNS) lookups using PHP’s <code>gethostbyaddr()</code> and <code>gethostbyname()</code> functions to verify that bots are who they claim to be (e.g., confirming a request claiming to be Googlebot actually originates from Google’s network). These lookups send the bot’s IP address to your server’s configured DNS resolver and the authoritative DNS servers for the IP address’s reverse DNS zone. Under some privacy regimes, IP addresses may be considered personal data. This feature runs automatically when a known AI bot visits your site and cannot currently be disabled via the admin UI (a filter hook <code>crawlantix_enable_verification</code> is available for developers).</p>
<p>No other external services, third-party APIs, or remote requests are used by this plugin. All analytics data is stored locally in your WordPress database. Chart.js is bundled locally — no CDN requests are made.</p>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Crawlantix AI Bot Tracker is designed with privacy as a core principle:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bot traffic only.</strong> The plugin only tracks automated bot traffic identified by User-Agent strings. Human visitors are not tracked and no cookies are set.</li>
<li><strong>No raw IP addresses stored.</strong> All IP addresses are SHA-256 hashed with a per-install random salt before storage (or AUTH_SALT when defined in <code>wp-config.php</code>). The original IP address cannot be recovered from the hash. Note: pseudonymous IP hashes may still be considered personal data under GDPR.</li>
<li><strong>Data stored per bot visit:</strong> IP hash, User-Agent string, requested URL, HTTP referrer URL, request method, timestamp, and derived fields (bytes transferred, bot verification status). Referrer URLs may contain personal data depending on the referring site.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Privacy API integration.</strong> The plugin registers exporter and eraser callbacks with WordPress core, so data-subject access and erasure requests filed through Tools <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Personal Data flow correctly.</li>
<li><strong>No external data transmission.</strong> All analytics data remains in your local WordPress database. No data is sent to Crawlantix or third-party services. The only external communication is DNS lookups for bot verification (see External Services above).</li>
<li><strong>Data retention controls.</strong> Bot visit data is automatically pruned after 30 days. Administrators can delete all collected data on uninstall via the “Delete Data on Uninstall” Settings toggle.</li>
</ul>
<p>For sites that require a formal privacy policy disclosure, you may note: “We use the Crawlantix AI Bot Tracker plugin to monitor automated AI bot traffic to our site. This plugin records bot User-Agent strings, pseudonymous IP hashes, pages visited, referrer URLs, and timestamps for detected bot traffic only. Raw IP addresses are cryptographically hashed before storage. No human visitor data is collected.”</p>
<h3>Premium Version</h3>
<p>Crawlantix also offers paid tiers at <a href="https://crawlantix.com" rel="nofollow ugc">crawlantix.com</a> for site owners who need active bot defense in addition to monitoring. The paid build adds the following features on top of everything in this free version:</p>
<h4>Protect tier</h4>
<ul>
<li>Active honeypot responses: HTTP 403 block, tarpit (random 5–25s delay with worker-exhaustion safeguards), rate limit 429, decoy content, shadowban.</li>
<li>Auto-block of repeat honeypot offenders, with configurable thresholds.</li>
<li>Per-IP response rules — apply a chosen response strategy to specific IP hashes (up to 200 rules).</li>
<li>Custom honeypot paths (up to 5) with a reserved-route safety list.</li>
<li>Email alerts for honeypot hits and parameter explosion patterns.</li>
<li>Robots.txt trap entries that catch non-compliant scrapers.</li>
<li>Optional override that suppresses the WordPress core <code>/wp/v2/users</code> REST endpoints (username-enumeration hardening, off by default and easy to opt back in).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Optimize tier</h4>
<ul>
<li>Full REST API at <code>/wp-json/ai-tracker/v1/</code> with API key authentication and 13 endpoints (status, stats, page, trends, bots, top-pages, report, export, alerts, honeypot, crawled-pages, etc.).</li>
<li>GeoIP location tracking with MaxMind GeoLite2.</li>
<li>Crawl Analytics tab with deeper traffic-quality metrics.</li>
<li>Extended data retention up to 365 days.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Scale tier</h4>
<ul>
<li>Backup & restore — export all data as JSON; import with merge or replace modes.</li>
<li>Unlimited retention.</li>
<li>Priority support.</li>
</ul>
<p>The paid build is a drop-in upgrade: same plugin slug, same database tables, same option keys, so all your historical bot data carries over with no migration step on your part.</p>


Crawlantix AI Bot Tracker

Track 30+ AI crawlers visiting your site with real-time dashboards, logging-only honeypot, and bot verification.

Marco Milesi

<p><strong>Telegram Bot & Channel</strong> is the all-in-one solution to connect your WordPress site with Telegram. Instantly broadcast posts, automate notifications, and create interactive bots for your audience. No coding required!</p>
<p><strong>Key Features:</strong><br />
– 🤖 <strong>Bot builder:</strong> Create interactive autoresponders for users and groups<br />
– 📣 <strong>Broadcast:</strong> Send posts, pages, or custom messages to your channels, groups, and subscribers<br />
– 🔔 <strong>Automated notifications:</strong> Instantly notify your audience about new content<br />
– 🔗 <strong>Zapier integration:</strong> Connect Telegram with 400+ apps and automate your workflows<br />
– 🔐 <strong>Secure:</strong> All connections use Telegram WebHooks and require SSL for maximum security<br />
– 🛡️ <strong>Modern UI:</strong> Clean, user-friendly admin panels with stats, logs, and quick actions</p>
<p><strong>Why choose this plugin?</strong><br />
– 100% free and open source<br />
– No third-party servers: your data stays on your site<br />
– Easy setup: just add your bot token and go<br />
– Developer-friendly: extend with custom PHP actions and filters</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p><strong>Bot & Broadcast:</strong><br />
– Send posts, pages, or custom messages with flexible templates<br />
– Schedule broadcasts for future posts<br />
– Use custom keyboards and inline buttons for rich user interaction<br />
– Broadcast to users, groups, supergroups, and channels<br />
– Unlimited autoresponders and command triggers<br />
– View insights about your Telegram audience<br />
– Haversine algorithm for geo-targeted content<br />
– Create custom applications with command variables</p>
<p><strong>Zapier & Automation:</strong><br />
– Connect Telegram to 400+ apps (RSS, Instagram, Google Sheets, and more)<br />
– Automate news, weather, social, and IoT notifications<br />
– Easy Zapier invite and setup</p>
<p><strong>Security & Privacy:</strong><br />
– All actions protected by WordPress nonces (CSRF protection)<br />
– Only supports secure Telegram WebHooks (SSL required)<br />
– No data sent to third-party servers (except optional Zapier integration)</p>
<p><strong>Screenshots:</strong><br />
1. Modern dashboard with stats and recent activity<br />
2. Subscribers list<br />
3. Commands and autoresponders<br />
4. Zapier integration<br />
5. Plugin settings with tabs<br />
6. Dynamic replies and inline buttons<br />
7. Keyboard example<br />
8. Post broadcasting<br />
9. Native Gutenberg support</p>


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