Is That Really GPTBot? How to Find and Verify AI Crawlers in Your Server Logs
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You've allowed AI search bots in robots.txt . Great. But are they actually reaching your pages, and are the requests in your logs really from them? The User-Agent header is just a string. Anyone can send GPTBot in a curl request. So "I saw GPTBot in my logs" proves very little until you check two t…
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- 2026-10-21 16:14 · DEV Community — AI
Is That Really GPTBot? How to Find and Verify AI Crawlers in Your Server Logs