AI Bot Blocker

The AI Bot Blocker is a powerful feature designed to protect your application from unauthorized content scraping by AI crawlers and automated bots. These bots can consume your content, impact server performance, and pose a risk to your intellectual property.

By enabling the AI Bot Blocker, your application is secured using smart detection rules that automatically block known AI scraping tools based on their user-agent strings. This helps you:

Prevent AI bots from accessing and scraping your content.
Maintain content privacy and protect intellectual property.
Reduce unwanted server load caused by automated traffic.

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Note: This feature is only available on the Tier 3 and Tier 4 plans. To access the AI Bot Blocker, please upgrade your current plan to Tier 3 or Tier 4.

Let’s see how you can enable and manage the AI Bot Blocker for any application/site on your server.

Step 1: First, log in to the ServerAvatar account, and click on the Server Dashboard button.

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Step 2: Now, click on the Applications option from the left-hand sidebar of the Server Panel, and click on the Application Dashboard.

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Step 3: Now, you will see the AI Bot Blocker option on the left-hand sidebar of the Application Panel. Click on the AI Bot Blocker.

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Step 4: Toggle the switch to enable AI Bot Blocker.

Once enabled, traffic from bots such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bard, YouBot, PerplexityBot, and many more will be denied access using rewrite rules, as shown in the code snippet.

Click the Save button to apply the changes.

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These rules block requests based on their user-agent string. The [F,L] directive returns a 403 Forbidden response and stops further rule processing.

You can disable the AI Bot Blocker at any time by toggling the switch back to the Off.
This feature does not block regular users or search engines unless they use AI-specific crawling agents.