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AI Crawler Log

Your site is either being crawled by AI bots or ignored by them. The Crawler Log shows you which, with names, timestamps, and page-level data for 14 AI crawlers.

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Every AI bot that visits your site.
Logged with name, URL, and timestamp.

The AI Crawler Log detects 18 known AI bot user-agent patterns and records every visit to your WordPress database. You see which bots are crawling which pages, when they visited, and what response code they received.

AI Crawler Log

Recent Activity

Last 24 hours

GPTBot
200

/blog/what-is-aeo/ · 2 min ago

PerplexityBot
200

/services/hvac-repair/ · 8 min ago

ClaudeBot
200

/about/ · 15 min ago

Bytespider
403

/blog/seo-guide/ · 22 min ago

Google-Extended
200

/pricing/ · 45 min ago

Know which AI bots are visiting and what they see

WordPress gives you no visibility into AI crawler traffic. Google Analytics does not track bots. Server logs require SSH access and pattern knowledge. The AI Crawler Log brings this data into your WordPress dashboard.

  • Detects 18 AI bot user-agent patterns
  • Logs bot name, URL visited, response code, IP address, and timestamp
  • Stored in a dedicated database table for fast queries
  • Works with the AI Crawler Allowlist to verify your bot management rules
  • Module can be toggled on/off in settings

Every major AI company is crawling WordPress sites.
Here is every bot the plugin tracks.

OpenAI (3 bots)
GPTBot Training crawler for foundation models
OAI-SearchBot Powers ChatGPT search results
ChatGPT-User User-triggered web fetches in ChatGPT
Anthropic (4 bots)
ClaudeBot Training crawler for Claude models
Claude-SearchBot Indexes content for Claude search
Claude-User User-triggered fetches in Claude
Anthropic-AI Legacy pattern (backward compatibility)
Perplexity (2 bots)
PerplexityBot Search index crawler (not training)
Perplexity-User Real-time browsing for cited answers
Google, Apple, Meta
Google-Extended Gemini/Vertex AI training (not Search)
Applebot-Extended Apple Intelligence AI training only
Meta-ExternalAgent LLaMA training + Meta AI features
FacebookBot Link previews (not strictly AI)
Other AI Crawlers
Amazonbot Amazon Alexa / AI services
Bytespider ByteDance / TikTok AI training
CCBot Common Crawl open dataset
Cohere-AI Cohere enterprise AI training
DeepSeekBot DeepSeek AI models

Logged Per Visit
bot_name Identified bot (e.g. GPTBot, ClaudeBot)
user_agent Full user-agent string (max 500 chars)
url Requested URL (max 2083 chars)
response_code HTTP status (200, 403, 404, etc.)
ip_address Bot IP address
created_at Visit timestamp

Six data points per visit.
Stored in a dedicated database table.

Each bot visit is stored in the a dedicated log table table. The detection runs early in the WordPress request lifecycle (on the WordPress action, priority 1) so every page view by an AI bot is captured before any caching layers interfere.

Bot identification uses case-insensitive pattern matching against the user-agent string. The 18 patterns cover every major AI company that currently deploys web crawlers.

  • Runs on every front-end page load (skips wp-admin)
  • User-agent sanitized and capped at 500 characters
  • URL sanitized and capped at 2083 characters
  • Module toggle in settings: enable or disable logging

AI bots are visiting your site right now.
Start tracking them today.

AI Crawler Log is included free in every AEO God Mode installation. Pair it with the AI Crawler Allowlist to control which bots you allow and which you block.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Fourteen: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Anthropic-AI, Google-Extended, CCBot, FacebookBot, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot, Bytespider, Cohere-AI, DeepSeekBot, and Meta-ExternalAgent.

No. The plugin only writes to the database when it detects an AI bot in the user agent. Regular visitors trigger zero database writes. A single lightweight INSERT per bot visit.

Default is 90 days. After that, old entries are automatically purged. You can also clear the entire log manually from the dashboard.

Yes. The dashboard shows your top 20 most-visited URLs by AI bots over the last 30 days, plus a per-bot breakdown and daily visit chart.

Get started in under 2 minutes

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