Identifying AI crawlers in your access log: user agent, source, and crawl frequency
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Your access log already answers "which AI crawlers hit my site, how hard, and are they who they claim to be". You don't need a new SDK or a tag manager. You need three passes over the same file: classify by user agent, verify by source, measure frequency. Here are the commands and one Python script…
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- 2026-10-23 04:19 · DEV Community — AI
Identifying AI crawlers in your access log: user agent, source, and crawl frequency