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Is that really GPTBot? How to verify AI crawlers in your logs

Open any access log today and you'll see GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and friends. The problem: a user agent is just a string. Anyone can send User-Agent: GPTBot from a $5 VPS, and scrapers do it on purpose, because many sites whitelist "good bots". So before you celebrate ("ChatGPT reads my si…

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  1. 2026-11-13 21:58 · DEV Community — AI
    Is that really GPTBot? How to verify AI crawlers in your logs

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