Observed arrival · 2026-10-27
BotSpotter’s live crawler watch
A public counter and world map for AI crawlers, built from visits reported by participating websites and honeypots.
- For
- Website operators tracking AI crawler visits
- Worth noticing
- Operators can claim a bot by proving control with a one-time fetch URL or a token published on its homepage.
Field notes
The dashboard is organized around live totals, recent discoveries, busiest bots, country and hosting-network views, and a split between verified and impostor hits; those figures appeared as dashes while the feed was connecting. The site describes a volunteer sensor-and-honeypot network, with a bot receiving a stable hash-derived name after sightings on three independent sites. It also says operators can claim bots by proving control through a one-time URL or homepage token.
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