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Welcome To BotScout

BotScout helps prevent automated web scripts, known as "bots", from registering on forums, polluting databases, spreading spam, and abusing forms on web sites. We do this by tracking the names, IPs, and email addresses that bots use and logging them as unique signatures for future reference. We make this signature data available through a simple yet powerful API that you can use to test forms when they're submitted on your site.

Stop The Bots

You can manually search our bot database to find bots in your forums, but you can also use a little bit of code in your forum, contact form, or other web application to test for bots and automatically ban or reject them on the spot. To make use of our database in your application, all you need to do is query it correctly. You can also download a list of the most recently-caught bots (shown below) from this URL: http://botscout.com/last_caught_cache.htm.

If you need to do more than about ~1500 automated lookups a day you'll probably want to get a free API key so you can do as many as you need. We even provide some sample code that you can use in your forums, contact forms, mailing lists, and other parts of your site.

There are also anti-bot plugins available for popular forums and CMS applications, including SMF, VBulletin, phpBB, Phorum, PunBB, Invision Power Board, FUDForum, Ikonboard, W-Agora, Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal.

Who Uses BotScout?

People and companies all over the world rely on BotScout to help screen out bots, including:
  • University of Washington
  • University of Milan
  • Fibromyalgia.com
  • UC Berkley
  • Georgia Courts
  • UNC Machine Vision Lab
  • Discover Seattle!
  • Banca Popolare del Verona
  • AspergerPlanet
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • BME Cancer Communities
  • US Motorcycle Rally
  • Snitz Forums
  • University of Georgia
  • Marriott International
  • The Standard Bank of South Africa
  • University of Pittsburgh
    • and thousands more!

    We can provide secure form protection and bot-screening solutions for your group or organization too- please contact us to find out more!

    Want To Help?

    You can help make life harder for bots by using the BotScout plugin on your site, because the more bot signatures we collect the more effective our filters become. Although we collect large numbers of bot signatures through our "bot honeypots", we can't catch them all. To submit bot data, all you need to do is get an API key and use BotScout on your site(s).

    You can also put a BotScout logo, button, or badge on your site to help let other people know about BotScout.

    Click Here To Help Keep BotScout Running

    Most Recently Banned Bots - 29 Oct 2026 3:53 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,380
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    6E5F44247043E7FB1EC21E68EE5FA616 6E5F44247043E7FB1EC21E68EE5FA616@example.com 120.40.130.70
    xjngwsncsmi xjngwsncsmi@avtovoz-av7.ru 120.40.130.70
    bridgett-rios30 bridgett-rios30@usgeek.org 172.71.158.177
    john john@example.com 120.40.130.70
    revoke revoke@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ip-172-24-2-182-root ip-172-24-2-182-root@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Rdx64 Rdx64@example.com 120.40.130.70
    chasjunkins.60 chasjunkins.60@brookmoor.one 172.69.22.76
    andym andym@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testtriad1909 testtriad1909@example.com 120.40.130.70
    maria.buamscha maria.buamscha@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    newbloghi261 newbloghi261@blogranks.top 178.171.33.88
    tacofarmer tacofarmer@example.com 120.40.130.70
    tyler tyler@example.com 120.40.130.70
    umts umts@kbptula.ru 120.40.130.70
    testing testing@example.com 120.40.130.70
    info info@kbptula.ru 120.40.130.70
    quynhanhn quynhanhn@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    user01 user01@example.com 120.40.130.70
    enigma enigma@example.com 120.40.130.70
    SaulMaria mail8@livecryptodailynews.com 156.230.216.34
    stf6971 stf6971@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    kateri007 kateri007@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    8902846387 8902846387@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    dmitrij-borzov-1996-04-11 dmitrij-borzov-1996-04-11@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    bossann bossann@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    91.201.254.163.202304 91.201.254.163.202304 120.40.130.70
    80.80.194.235213.87.135.10880.80.194.182213.8 80.80.194.235213.87.135.10880.80.194.182213.8 120.40.130.70
    pereponov1993 pereponov1993@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    mayala mayala@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    maxrovn maxrovn@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    sriquelme sriquelme@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    jano jano@example.com 120.40.130.70
    aseguridad aseguridad@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    xsalazar xsalazar@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    zmoreno zmoreno@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    asotor asotor@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    omori omori@example.com 120.40.130.70
    2806:10::1::41:636:1581 2806:10::1::41:636:1581 120.40.130.70
    drcweb drcweb@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    wreynolds wreynolds@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    darktrader darktrader@example.com 120.40.130.70
    info info@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    mulloa mulloa@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    smorales smorales@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    ymeyer ymeyer@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    bmonge bmonge@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    jvalencia jvalencia@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    jgonzalez jgonzalez@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    cvivallos cvivallos@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    128.74.63.170202206 128.74.63.170202206 120.40.130.70
    aevsyuhina aevsyuhina@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    94.25.160.11180.80.197.13480.80.195.11780.80. 94.25.160.11180.80.197.13480.80.195.11780.80. 120.40.130.70
    jorellana jorellana@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    176.212.201.140.202304 176.212.201.140.202304 120.40.130.70
    mcaceres mcaceres@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    89.254.227.153.201510 89.254.227.153.201510 120.40.130.70
    kazaku72 kazaku72@inbox.ru 120.40.130.70
    217.118.66.74.201511 217.118.66.74.201511 120.40.130.70
    vova.suchkov.0000 vova.suchkov.0000@list.ru 120.40.130.70
    warrenschindler8018 warrenschindler8018@ssl.tls.cloudns.asia 162.158.167.24
    liza.rudneva.2023 liza.rudneva.2023@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    mgaete mgaete@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    kanyucka.natali kanyucka.natali@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    vrojas vrojas@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    188.244.34.3.201505 188.244.34.3.201505 120.40.130.70
    jvidal jvidal@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    ecienfuegos ecienfuegos@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70