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Bravo Crawl Hunter helps you block AI crawlers<\/strong>, AI scrapers<\/strong>, spam bots<\/strong>, unwanted bots<\/strong>, and other automated crawlers<\/strong> from your WordPress site.<\/p>\n\n Choose which known bots to allow or block, and decide whether they are asked politely through robots.txt or denied outright with an HTTP 403 response.<\/p>\n\n You can also monitor and review crawler activity<\/strong> from the Bravo Crawl Hunter >> Dashboard<\/strong> menu in your WordPress dashboard.<\/p>\n\n The plugin provides detailed crawler activity, including total requests, blocked requests, top crawlers, most targeted pages, and crawler categories<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n Every crawler the plugin knows about comes from a curated registry organized by purpose, so you can understand what a bot is used for before deciding how to handle it.<\/p>\n\n Bravo Crawl Hunter includes a curated registry of AI crawlers, scrapers, AI assistants, and AI search bots from major AI companies and services.<\/p>\n\n AI Crawler bots are blocked by default, while AI assistants and AI search bots can be selected individually. You can block selected bots using robots.txt rules, or HTTP 403 hard blocking.<\/p>\n\n You can also add custom User-Agent strings when a bot or scraper is not included in the built-in registry.<\/p>\n\n More than 75 known crawlers ship with the plugin, grouped into seven categories:<\/p>\n\n Only the AI Crawler category is blocked out of the box. Search engines, SEO tools, archivers, and other crawlers stay untouched until you opt in, so search visibility never changes without your explicit choice.<\/p>\n\n The two methods are independent. Use either one, or both together, from Settings \u2192 General Settings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n Hard blocking applies to front-end requests as well as WordPress REST API and XML-RPC requests, helping prevent selected crawlers from accessing your content through alternate WordPress endpoints.<\/p>\n\n Bots and scrapers that are not in the registry can be blocked by adding their User-Agent string under Settings \u2192 General Settings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n Up to 50 entries are supported, each matched anywhere in the incoming User-Agent header and case-insensitively, and enforced with the same protection methods as the registry.<\/p>\n\n Server-side detection runs when a request reaches WordPress. A page served entirely from a server cache, caching plugin, or CDN may never reach WordPress, so it cannot be classified that way.<\/p>\n\n For those requests, the optional JavaScript Detection<\/strong> feature records known crawlers that load a cached page containing the plugin's lightweight detection script.<\/p>\n\n It is disabled by default and can be enabled from Settings \u2192 General Settings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n The dashboard summarizes crawler activity over the date range you pick:<\/p>\n\n The Crawler Logs screen is a searchable, filterable, paginated history of classified requests. Each entry records the time, crawler, path, action, and user agent.<\/p>\n\n Logging is on by default and can be switched off under Settings \u2192 General Settings<\/strong>; dashboard totals and charts keep updating either way.<\/p>\n\n Log retention is capped by a maximum entry count under Settings \u2192 Advanced<\/strong>, and the oldest entries are removed first.<\/p>\n\n Settings can be exported to a JSON file and imported back, to keep a backup or move a configuration to another site, from Settings \u2192 Advanced<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n The same screen lets you reset everything to the recommended defaults, and choose whether settings, logs, and stats are kept or removed if the plugin is deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n No. robots.txt only provides instructions, and a crawler is free to ignore them. Enable Hard block (403)<\/strong> under Settings \u2192 General Settings<\/strong> for a response that is enforced when a selected crawler reaches WordPress.<\/p><\/dd>\n Not by default. Search engine crawlers and archivers are part of the registry but are never blocked unless you select them yourself under Settings \u2192 Search Engines & Others<\/strong>.<\/p><\/dd>\n Server-side detection works whenever a request reaches WordPress. Because a fully cached page may not reach WordPress at all, you can enable JavaScript Detection<\/strong> under Settings \u2192 General Settings<\/strong> to record known crawlers that load cached pages containing the detection script.<\/p><\/dd>\n The Dashboard gives you the overview, and Crawler Logs<\/strong> lets you search and filter individual classified requests.<\/p><\/dd>\n Logs are pruned automatically against the maximum entry count you set, so stored log data stays within that limit. Logging can also be turned off entirely while keeping dashboard totals.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Crawler settings, logs, and statistics are stored in your own WordPress database, and the plugin makes no outbound requests to third-party services.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Bravo Crawl Hunter includes a curated registry of AI crawlers and scrapers. You can select the crawlers you want to block and use robots.txt rules, HTTP 403 hard blocking, or both.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. You can add a custom User-Agent string under Settings \u2192 General Settings. Custom User-Agents can be blocked using the same protection methods as the built-in crawler registry.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n\ud83e\udd16 Block AI crawlers and scrapers<\/h4>\n\n
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bravo-crawl-hunter<\/code> folder to \/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code>, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen.<\/li>\n\n
Does robots.txt block every bot?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will this block search engines like Googlebot or Bingbot?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
I use a caching plugin, server cache, or CDN. Will the plugin still work?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Where can I see crawler activity?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does logging affect performance or database size over time?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does the plugin send any data to an external service?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I block AI crawlers and AI scrapers?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I block a bot that is not in the crawler registry?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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