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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 - 22 May 2026 1:20 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,699
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    KamiShirley302 kamishirley21@deny.milkgg.com 102.165.54.212
    matthewjackson1643rasj matthewjackson1643rasj@c.verifiedlinklist.com 172.69.23.194
    202:1810:90:800:85:383:9045:48 202:1810:90:800:85:383:9045:48 120.40.130.70
    benny-toney99 benny-toney99@fe5a.bestsmmservice.online 172.71.154.179
    Climpson dear.horse.jucm@hidingmail.net 146.70.72.139
    terrifiore47 terrifiore47@front.elyquin.org 104.22.17.127
    1hererfyyhyu 1hererfyyhyu@anonmails.de 120.40.130.70
    kanacampbell69366l6rq kanacampbell69366l6rq@seoautomationpro.com. 103.207.2.128
    Emely36731 emelymonaghan52@wild.ehomu.com 181.215.16.247
    patriciarodriguez2295y9y3 patriciarodriguez2295y9y3@b.travel-e-store.com 45.89.100.218
    laurenceholton4675 laurenceholton4675@buybm.one 172.69.23.193
    danielsmith6163vnzh danielsmith6163vnzh@linkbuilding.club 156.241.204.229
    GitaHazel801276 gitahazel42@panel.cdfaq.com 154.16.69.250
    umielich umielich@t-online.de 172.69.23.193
    lindajohnson7n0wz lindajohnson7n0wz@a.travel-e-store.com 92.118.41.45
    egorgusev1 egorgusev1@casinotds.xyz 149.202.84.95
    ju.st.4du.m.mies.g.u.i.de ju.st.4du.m.mies.g.u.i.de@gmail.com 104.22.17.126
    1hererfyyhyu 1hererfyyhyu@anonmails.de 120.40.130.70
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    verlenehoutz9731 verlenehoutz9731@now.mefound.com 172.69.23.194
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