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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 - 18 May 2026 10:11 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,446
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    triline triline@mymts.net 2605:59:1013:10:328:8:253:6
    triline triline@mymts.net 2605:59:1013:10:38:689:353:80
    triline triline@mymts.net 2605:59:1013:10:3033:11:91:98
    triline triline@mymts.net 205.185.192.188
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:5:45:47:5
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:16:832:74:45
    dale.griver dale.griver@onepureedge.com 104.22.20.143
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:130:99:222:3178
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2607:91:337:04:699:80:0:53
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2607:90:3500:7:94:017:663:479
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:13:26:77:4067
    help help@vrs-spb.ru 120.40.130.70
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:075:97:78:83
    triline triline@mymts.net 143.105.39.89
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:18:954::531
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2607:91:265:449:542:15:8076:118
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:787:650:19:579
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2607:91:336:824:7:564:7512:1
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:807:631:0:47
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:209:10:023:5
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:1:70:5077:5478
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2607:90:4529:88:73:76:84:985
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:378:877:95:587
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:549:06:24:407
    gerald gerald@dynastyluxuryhomes.com 2603:8080:20:550:60:3176:8866:125
    78kuzbass 78kuzbass@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    DougSewell douglassewell@btinternet.com 200:237:380:601:9:43:1629:377
    xgghn xgghn@webtoteam.shop 120.40.130.70
    PPVKarri97436814 karribishop@69v9.com 186.179.10.99
    cl.i.nic.f.o.r.h.im.5.0 cl.i.nic.f.o.r.h.im.5.0@gmail.com 172.71.158.68
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    VicenteBelz56 fatimawilliams66137@d.seoautomationpro.com 92.118.41.191
    mariammauldin4 mariammauldin4@tala.oxilv.com 104.168.53.236
    gilbert.strother gilbert.strother@support.51tiemo.com 120.40.130.70
    sophie.elizabeth.robin sophie.elizabeth.robin@gmail.com 137.111.13.126
    kirsten.kirsten kirsten.kirsten@xemimi.pokemonica.online 172.71.154.179
    maicob maicob@t-online.de 162.158.167.133
    andrey-zaitsev andrey-zaitsev@casinotds.xyz 172.71.154.178
    OuidaLuong57 ouidaluong83@seat.muzaco.com 191.101.92.224
    dominiquesteadham dominiquesteadham@bd.dns-cloud.net 104.22.17.127
    utetietkens21 utetietkens21@trick.veauly.com 172.69.134.85
    JamesErarp cmeredith@auld-white.com 185.77.220.178
    Antje92671999 antjemccart97@these.veauly.com 144.48.52.206
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