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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 - 9 Aug 2026 1:05 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,479
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    gooey gooey@fastmail.fm 2600:381:8:924:4565:9:628:1
    cdwait cdwait@rochester.rr.com 74.36.195.86
    gooey gooey@fastmail.fm 2600:387:15:3730::1
    EmmanuelMorley9 columbusalcala@anonmails.de 45.15.73.103
    SyreetaDieter28 syreetadieter44@only.veauly.com 191.101.114.220
    MelinaRagsdale melinaragsdale28@fiber.pettin.com 191.101.92.218
    l.i.nk.s.89.m.a.s.t l.i.nk.s.89.m.a.s.t@gmail.com 31.184.246.224
    LorettaCasas24 danielanderson1251fdsy@c.mustdoindubai.com 81.92.195.184
    IsidraNorth3 johnwilliams9505946j@c.bestvpsfor.xyz 152.232.53.115
    charleslopez9725vz1t charleslopez9725vz1t@c.pattaya-mega.com 120.40.130.70
    ramil-gilmanov1993 ramil-gilmanov1993@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    BusterRhoads1 paulwilliams79312bch@c.bestvpsfor.xyz 152.232.53.113
    pkhnmssv pkhnmssv@ishowfirstmail.com 64.31.3.126
    EstellaDarwin estelladarwin12@stuff.mxdood.com 144.48.52.117
    robertjackson1987yegj robertjackson1987yegj@e.welcometotijuana.com 209.127.79.164
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    MyronCbx3166 myrondejesus7@fast.veauly.com 144.48.52.102
    LadonnaGillott5 ciaralaurens@anonmails.de 185.181.246.176
    AleidaHardacre3 laraybarra@anonmails.de 185.181.246.176
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    GalenRoundtree7 andrewmartinez9009pele@travel-e-store.com 103.240.99.136
    GabrieleSapp67 gabrielesapp47@deny.milkgg.com 191.101.92.224
    opaltruitt opaltruitt@b.cr.cloudns.asia 95.177.87.19
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    svetlanaxopome svetlanaxopome@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    mer-1 mer-1@topcrush.org 31.14.252.12
    SheliaBrinson charleslopez7308kg1k@c.bestvpsfor.xyz 217.60.161.252
    xiaperez58040so1n xiaperez58040so1n@a.seoautomationpro.com 156.230.199.205
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    DorineDodd1 dorinedodd26@.mxdood.com 102.165.54.218
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