Is My Website Being Scraped by AI?
If your site is online, the answer is almost certainly yes, at least a little. AI crawlers copy content from small sites every day to train models, and most owners never notice. Here is how to check for sure, and what to do about it.
The signs it is happening
Watch for unexplained spikes in traffic or bandwidth that do not match real visitors, pages being fetched far faster than a human would read them, and hits with no referrer. These are classic footprints of an automated crawler rather than a person.
The bot names to look for
In your server logs, search the user-agent for names such as GPTBot, Bytespider, CCBot, ClaudeBot, Amazonbot, and Google-Extended. Each one is an AI crawler collecting data, and seeing them means your content is being copied.
The 2-minute free check
If you do not want to dig through raw logs, the fastest way is the free StopBotAPI scanner. Enter your site and it shows which AI crawlers are reaching you right now, with no signup required.
What to do if you are being scraped
Decide which bots to allow and which to turn away, then block the training crawlers at the door while keeping search engines and live shopping assistants. StopBotAPI does this in one line of code and keeps the block list current as new bots appear.
See which AI bots are on your site
Run a free scan with no signup, then block them in one line.