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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 - 21 Aug 2026 2:03 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,041
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    VenettaSalier venetta-salier22@51tiemo.com 192.241.74.106
    2804:304:17:6000:305:6827:638:629 2804:304:17:6000:305:6827:638:629 120.40.130.70
    2803:600:8110:67:4468:81:72:910 2803:600:8110:67:4468:81:72:910 120.40.130.70
    2804:5:46:9200:583:76:6:238 2804:5:46:9200:583:76:6:238 120.40.130.70
    2804:1054:514:00:85:814:101:087 2804:1054:514:00:85:814:101:087 120.40.130.70
    2800:0:824:150:49:3405:321:3 2800:0:824:150:49:3405:321:3 120.40.130.70
    2804:14:880:404:467:6195:493:42 2804:14:880:404:467:6195:493:42 120.40.130.70
    2603:6000:80:640:45:973:91:3471 2603:6000:80:640:45:973:91:3471 120.40.130.70
    2804:18:23:10:15:12:3:1 2804:18:23:10:15:12:3:1 120.40.130.70
    GeorgiaKoonce9 georgiakoonce15@put.pettin.com 191.101.114.29
    zuyev-vadik zuyev-vadik@bk.ru 120.40.130.70
    2804:14:385:71:40:10:747:716 2804:14:385:71:40:10:747:716 120.40.130.70
    2804:4:1101:569:3176:858:748:614 2804:4:1101:569:3176:858:748:614 120.40.130.70
    2804:13:242:2:22:02:2:65 2804:13:242:2:22:02:2:65 120.40.130.70
    2804:954:6:3100:28:653:9:2 2804:954:6:3100:28:653:9:2 120.40.130.70
    sherryvandermark4623 sherryvandermark4623@e.lovepettoys.shop 95.164.110.237
    Eduardo dudufresneda@hotmail.com 94.247.141.199
    2804:13:282:6:363:8:65:2967 2804:13:282:6:363:8:65:2967 120.40.130.70
    NovellaDoorly51 novelladoorly28@trick.veauly.com 181.215.16.216
    2804:474:1086:1000:213:6:93:8002 2804:474:1086:1000:213:6:93:8002 120.40.130.70
    2804:278:10:7100:615:54:0:98 2804:278:10:7100:615:54:0:98 120.40.130.70
    2001:8:711:5047:00:1:26:465 2001:8:711:5047:00:1:26:465 120.40.130.70
    2804:1494::100:4169:9:9:5007 2804:1494::100:4169:9:9:5007 120.40.130.70
    2804:4398:3:80:45:0:456:3153 2804:4398:3:80:45:0:456:3153 120.40.130.70
    2804:70:22:36:8:417:89:71 2804:70:22:36:8:417:89:71 120.40.130.70
    204:707:300:6200:6:9:5:9474 204:707:300:6200:6:9:5:9474 120.40.130.70
    2804:474:108:600:583:780:4725:853 2804:474:108:600:583:780:4725:853 120.40.130.70
    2804:320:4181:130:00:6:93:76 2804:320:4181:130:00:6:93:76 120.40.130.70
    202:8108:8125:100:19:943:8942:18 202:8108:8125:100:19:943:8942:18 120.40.130.70
    2804:24:002:200:25:254::539 2804:24:002:200:25:254::539 120.40.130.70
    2804:2664:5106:900:2595:9:45:5715 2804:2664:5106:900:2595:9:45:5715 120.40.130.70
    2803:9800:901::387:13:56:55 2803:9800:901::387:13:56:55 120.40.130.70
    DonnellOShanassy donnelloshanassy77@slow.pettin.com 102.165.53.252
    202:3033:705:9:5283:694:8226: 202:3033:705:9:5283:694:8226: 120.40.130.70
    danielrodriguez6385xfnh danielrodriguez6385xfnh@b.mustdoindubai.com 196.51.8.24
    alt.cw-3o5t5qth alt.cw-3o5t5qth@yopmail.com 120.40.130.70
    2804:30::43:810:395:805:378 2804:30::43:810:395:805:378 120.40.130.70
    2804:98:478:50:96:88:359:8788 2804:98:478:50:96:88:359:8788 120.40.130.70
    2804:268:006:8200:5577:2:58:59 2804:268:006:8200:5577:2:58:59 120.40.130.70
    2605:59:7090:108:567:98:76:9 2605:59:7090:108:567:98:76:9 120.40.130.70
    2804:298:5027::82:870:3:36 2804:298:5027::82:870:3:36 120.40.130.70
    2804:2488:086:780:615:21:3:9 2804:2488:086:780:615:21:3:9 120.40.130.70
    2804:14:281:82:0:5678:287:73 2804:14:281:82:0:5678:287:73 120.40.130.70
    6.09818d091496d2395875f5f2d1483256.a03c5fda44.wbe 6.09818d091496d2395875f5f2d1483256.a03c5fda44.wbe@ 120.40.130.70
    4.af8e5e24f6d48ee919e939105eda33f0.5473c971fe.wbe 4.af8e5e24f6d48ee919e939105eda33f0.5473c971fe.wbe@ 120.40.130.70
    7.4a871ae7d05d2c98d9abb595d392cd69.3ea354fa2d.wbe 7.4a871ae7d05d2c98d9abb595d392cd69.3ea354fa2d.wbe@ 120.40.130.70
    4.af8e5e24f6d48ee919e939105eda33f0.3d9b9eba58.wbe 4.af8e5e24f6d48ee919e939105eda33f0.3d9b9eba58.wbe@ 120.40.130.70
    9.af8e5e24f6d48ee919e939105eda33f0.46aede5e8d.wbe 9.af8e5e24f6d48ee919e939105eda33f0.46aede5e8d.wbe@ 120.40.130.70
    jeanmichsene jeanmichsene@yopmail.com 120.40.130.70
    3.af8e5e24f6d48ee919e939105eda33f0.ec49f1d534.wbe 3.af8e5e24f6d48ee919e939105eda33f0.ec49f1d534.wbe@ 120.40.130.70
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    2804:35:70:6500:56:38:49:27 2804:35:70:6500:56:38:49:27 120.40.130.70
    5.21cef27f24838c9e40d3f6108da0a156.d7259dafed.wbe 5.21cef27f24838c9e40d3f6108da0a156.d7259dafed.wbe@ 120.40.130.70
    2804:9:5:1778:5:88:9611:498 2804:9:5:1778:5:88:9611:498 120.40.130.70
    2804:5:671:5200:959:66:0:391 2804:5:671:5200:959:66:0:391 120.40.130.70
    2804:298:5082:542:47:2976:935:3020 2804:298:5082:542:47:2976:935:3020 120.40.130.70
    2806:109::23:567:126:948:708 2806:109::23:567:126:948:708 120.40.130.70
    2804:20:116:900:67::310:59 2804:20:116:900:67::310:59 120.40.130.70
    anne-derrington8489 anne-derrington8489@mailtech.ro 188.213.1.98
    2804:13:22:5476:96::4807:63 2804:13:22:5476:96::4807:63 120.40.130.70
    2804:18:13:10:915:07:23:334 2804:18:13:10:915:07:23:334 120.40.130.70
    2804:14:2:936:912:599:427:6413 2804:14:2:936:912:599:427:6413 120.40.130.70
    2804:692:018:23:89::8:992 2804:692:018:23:89::8:992 120.40.130.70
    SammieWorsnop98 sammieworsnop51@role.cdfaq.com 196.198.13.159
    c.uth.a.h.k.ai c.uth.a.h.k.ai@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    2804:14:11:8:490:140:88:89 2804:14:11:8:490:140:88:89 120.40.130.70
    2804:229:8200:868:7484:692:908:88 2804:229:8200:868:7484:692:908:88 120.40.130.70
    202:2121:86:741:102:246:257:5539 202:2121:86:741:102:246:257:5539 120.40.130.70
    EllieMenda solaracorn929@pokerenchiles.cl 13.38.59.184
    glennscott glennscott@y7mail.com 2001:8003:30:01:13:60:97:3
    2804:721:19:6000:864:2:5:1248 2804:721:19:6000:864:2:5:1248 120.40.130.70
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