Title: crawler-hunter
Author: naimgr83
Published: <strong>October 27, 2022</strong>
Last modified: May 27, 2025

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# crawler-hunter

 By [naimgr83](https://profiles.wordpress.org/naimgr83/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/crawler-hunter.zip)

 * [Details](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/crawler-hunter/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/crawler-hunter/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/crawler-hunter/#installation)
 * [Development](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/crawler-hunter/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawler-hunter/)

## Description

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…

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * screenshot-1
 * [[
 * screenshot-2

## Installation

Upload the crawler-hunter plugin to your blog and activate

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7a287b32d8df6d1f8899ec8e45424977f7f77d376e0e1c738f7f84f51f95a3a5?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[A good helper from bots](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-good-helper-from-bots/)󠁿

 [Владимир](https://profiles.wordpress.org/traveldoru/) September 24, 2023 1 reply

There are bots that this plugin blocks, as a result, there are fewer direct visits
to the site.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/dd8cef4c70bb3a14f5922eb54c92a8166947a303f44eb4a89a954cee4defad6f?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great Plugin:)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-36880/)󠁿

 [tinaponting](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ponting/) May 22, 2023 1 reply

A great plugn that saves bandwith for me:)

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawler-hunter/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“crawler-hunter” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ naimgr83 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/naimgr83/)

[Translate “crawler-hunter” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/crawler-hunter)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crawler-hunter/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/crawler-hunter/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/crawler-hunter/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/crawler-hunter/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1

 * Fixed bugs in php 8.x
 * Tests on WordPress 6.3.1

#### 1.3

 * Tests on WordPress 6.8.1

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3**
 *  Last updated **10 months ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/crawler-hunter/)
 * Tags
 * [bad bots](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bad-bots/)[ban](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ban/)
   [block](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/block/)[security](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)
   [spiders](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spiders/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/crawler-hunter/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  1 5-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawler-hunter/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawler-hunter/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawler-hunter/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawler-hunter/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawler-hunter/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ naimgr83 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/naimgr83/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawler-hunter/)