Description
Track and control artificial agents crawling your website including AI assistants, scrapers, and other bots.
Track and Control Artificial Agents Crawling Your Website
This plugin connects your website to Dark Visitors.
Half of your traffic is invisible to you. Analyze, protect, and optimize your content for the hidden ecosystem of AI assistants, scrapers, and other bots swarming across the internet.
Features
- Keep Your Robots.txt Updated Automatically: Use the API or WordPress plugin to generate a robots.txt that continuously stays up to date with the latest known agents, which are changing every day.
- Protect Your Content From Scraping: Block agents who try to ignore your robots.txt rules.
- Expose Your Hidden Traffic With Agent Analytics: Get realtime insight into the increasingly meaningful activity of artificial agents that other analytics platforms hide from you.
- Spot Emerging AI Trends: See when people are using AI assistants or autonomous agents to access your website on their behalf.
- Identify Top Agents and Pages: See which agents visit your website the most, and which of your pages they’re most interested in.
Demos
Links to demos can be found on the home page.
Further Detail
As mentioned above, this is the official plugin for Dark Visitors. It uses the Dark Visitors API to connect to your account and provide functionality.
By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Screenshots
An overview of all agent activity on the website 
A timeline of all agent visits to the website 
Insights into an agent’s activity on the website 
Insights into agents who are not following the website’s robots.txt rules 
Agent details including insight into how many websites are blocking it 
A generated robots.txt
Installation
- Install and activate the Dark Visitors plugin from the WordPress Plugin Directory
- Sign up for Dark Visitors and create a new project for your website.
- Copy your access token from the project’s settings page, then paste it into the access token field on the plugin’s configuration page.
Your website is now connected to Dark Visitors.
FAQ
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Do I need a Dark Visitors account to use this plugin?
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Yes. Setting up an account only takes a few seconds. This is where you’ll be able to see insights into agent activity on your website.
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Is Dark Visitors free?
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Dark Visitors is a freemium service. Most features are free, but you can choose to pay for premium features. More detail can be found on the pricing page.
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What are some examples of agents?
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Examples include GPTBot, CCBot, Claudebot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot, etc. See the full agent list for more.
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Why should I care about agents?
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There are many reasons. Their activity affects:
- Whether your content is used in AI model training
- If your users can use AI assistants to access your website
- How your pages appear in search engine results
- Server resource usage
- Etc.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Dark Visitors” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.13.0
- Code updates
1.12.0
- Code updates
1.11.0
- Code updates
1.10.0
- Code updates
1.9.0
- Code updates
1.8.0
- Copy changes
1.7.0
- Design updates
1.6.0
- Code cleanup
1.5.0
- Simplified the analytics code
1.4.0
- Added the option to block agents
1.3.0
- Added a small edge case fix
1.2.0
- Updated copy
1.1.0
- Added the ability to disable analytics
1.0.0
- Initial release