Description: The BotScout.com bot database helps you prevent bots from registering on your forums or using your web forms.
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Welcome To BotScout BotScout helps prevent automated web scripts, known as "bots", from registering on forums, polluting databases, spreading spam, and abusing forms on web sites. We do this by tracking the names, IPs, and email addresses that bots use and logging them as unique signatures for future reference. We make this signature data available through a simple yet powerful API that you can use to test forms when they're submitted on your site.
Stop The Bots You can manually search our bot database to find bots in your forums, but you can also use a little bit of code in your forum, contact form, or other web application to test for bots and automatically ban or reject them on the spot. To make use of our database in your application, all you need to do is query it correctly . You can also download a list of the most recently-caught bots (shown below) from this URL: http://botscout.com/last_caught_cache.htm . If you need to do more than about ~100