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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 - 27 Jun 2026 11:17 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,663
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    tandydouglas tandydouglas@veauly.com 104.22.17.127
    darlenehilliard40 darlenehilliard40@marketmail.xyz 104.22.17.126
    202:1810:428:900:342:42:931:54 202:1810:428:900:342:42:931:54 120.40.130.70
    KyleParramore60 katrinaclemmons@b.cr.cloudns.asia 106.215.151.160
    augustusderrington augustusderrington@buybm.one 104.22.17.127
    xo.huxogu.s.uy.07 xo.huxogu.s.uy.07@gmail.com 89.124.69.86
    chantehawks8717 chantehawks8717@megaposty.com 172.71.154.179
    202:1810:503:900:181:873:8955:35 202:1810:503:900:181:873:8955:35 120.40.130.70
    audrealincoln7442 audrealincoln7442@nhotv.com 45.15.73.169
    MaryjoJ498187 katrinaclemmons@b.cr.cloudns.asia 106.215.151.160
    AngeliaChapple0 katrinaclemmons@b.cr.cloudns.asia 106.215.151.160
    202:1808:123:512::4223:95 202:1808:123:512::4223:95 120.40.130.70
    SantoGeoghegan4 santogeoghegan15@toy.pettin.com 191.101.114.216
    43.157.224.197 43.157.224.197 31.44.59.224
    114.80.41.216 114.80.41.216 176.8.89.36
    167.99.197.34 167.99.197.34 31.44.59.224
    stevecampisicfa stevecampisicfa@comcast.net 2603:6000:10:690:4885:660:418:836
    stevecampisicfa stevecampisicfa@comcast.net 2603:6000:10:690:4444:410:11:4
    stevecampisicfa stevecampisicfa@comcast.net 2603:6000:10:690:10:102:0:036
    stevecampisicfa stevecampisicfa@comcast.net 24.163.168.107
    stevecampisicfa stevecampisicfa@comcast.net 2603:6000:10:690:91:226:06:7
    stevecampisicfa stevecampisicfa@comcast.net 2603:6000:10:690:09:33:176:878
    stevecampisicfa stevecampisicfa@comcast.net 2603:6000:10:690:9198:745:24:16
    stevecampisicfa stevecampisicfa@comcast.net 2600:1000:120:08:611:0:7234:2472
    stevecampisicfa stevecampisicfa@comcast.net 2600:1000:120:08:44:11:9130:381
    stevecampisicfa stevecampisicfa@comcast.net 66.249.83.13
    unfunker unfunker@gmail.com 174.1.57.76
    zkever zkever@hotmail.com 193.56.116.229
    zkever zkever@hotmail.com 68.35.218.183
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:2:1473:24::45:10
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:3:1494:24::45:121
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:2:1468:24::45:12
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:3:1471:30::4:48
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:2:13:24::45:103
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:3:13:18::311:89
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:2:1368:24::45:109
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 207.216.126.210
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:3:13:24::45:0
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:2:14:24::45:111
    195.65.43.23 195.65.43.23 176.8.89.36
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:2:123:30::4:20
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 2604:309:137:820:9085:56:4333:4498
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:2:139:24::45:12
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:3:1395:24::45:8
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:2:1321:30::4:18
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:3:135:24::45:1
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:3:132:24::45:3
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:3:132:24::45:1
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:3:139:24::45:6
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:3:1349:30::4:12
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 209:3:1480:24::45:10
    checkersmiler0c checkersmiler0c@icloud.com 174.6.184.78
    jbloem jbloem@segal.com 2803:7380:55:0:423:901:581:5815
    pwilk17 pwilk17@hotmail.com 153.67.3.74
    pwilk17 pwilk17@hotmail.com 2605:100:31:216:6599:65:1:400
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:1771:12::2:21
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:182:12::312:0
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:192:18::311:3
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:192:12::312:7
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:181:18::311:0
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:192:18::311:7
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:2:246:18::311:
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:240:12::312:
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:1929:12::312:
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:1928:12::312:7
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:192:12::2:51
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:2:192:12::312:8
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:160:12::312:29
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 194.88.96.92
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:2:166:18::311:62
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:192:8:::331
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:3:192:19::292:24
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 202:267:84:602:0:8800:0:
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 209:2:1929:18::311:97
    hanukh hanukh@icloud.com 174.91.153.139
    135.148.171.117 135.148.171.117 31.44.59.224