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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 - 31 Jul 2026 3:01 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,837
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:51:15:2:6
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:030:593:318:28
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:5995:31:518:56
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:320:668:284:4:705
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:6363:704:455:449
    wootsmusic wootsmusic@startmail.com 184.103.188.168
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:109:944:80:11
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:20:55:514:689
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:74:874:284:322
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:320:347:1:4562:13
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:31:983:652:77
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:46:541:4185:3
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:9:9909:7:1
    BruceBlais marydavis7481w209@verifiedlinklist.com 196.51.76.26
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:51:272:543:298
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:7094:812:044:57
    wootsmusic wootsmusic@startmail.com 184.103.188.52
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:320:321:7:86:469
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:90:550:8:566
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:80:28:841:73:810
    joe.b.thornton.jr joe.b.thornton.jr@gmail.com 2603:6081:160:320:22:286:31:698
    wootsmusic wootsmusic@startmail.com 184.103.174.164
    ms.qileqn4807jaebd.comwru2lhonvuhyoamail.jaebd.com ms.qileqn4807jaebd.comwru2lhonvuhyoamail.jaebd.com 162.158.167.43
    johnrodriguez7851l9dv johnrodriguez7851l9dv@c.welcometotijuana.com 104.22.20.143
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    MurielB9366830 murielkelliher28@fiber.pettin.com 144.48.52.31
    marinakenode marinakenode@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
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    KristinaCannan leathahendrix@freundin.ru 156.241.223.129
    olegpokuko olegpokuko@mail.ru 172.71.154.178
    charlesmartinez5135m75d charlesmartinez5135m75d@budgetthailandtravel.com 104.22.17.78
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    DenishaCas denishacasper15@lavrana.orvionix.eu 23.81.120.18
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    javijaimes364 javijaimes364@email.com 120.40.130.70
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    BigAlex3748 BigAlex3748@proton.me 148.252.158.184
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