Unsourced — AI Bot Monitor

AI bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and others scrape your content to train models and generate answers. They often skip JavaScript entirely — making standard analytics invisible to their visits.

Unsourced — AI Bot Monitor runs server-side inside WordPress. It checks the User-Agent on every request, identifies known AI crawlers, and sends a non-blocking report to your Unsourced dashboard. Your visitors see zero impact on page load time.

What it detects:
* GPTBot (OpenAI)
* ChatGPT-User
* ClaudeBot (Anthropic)
* anthropic-ai
* PerplexityBot
* CCBot (Common Crawl)
* Google-Extended
* Bytespider (ByteDance)
* cohere-ai
* Diffbot
* Amazonbot
* YouBot
* Meta-ExternalAgent
* Applebot-Extended
* And more — updated with every release

Requirements:
* An Unsourced account — free 14-day trial at unsourced.app
* Your site must be verified in your Unsourced dashboard before events are recorded

External Services

This plugin sends data to Unsourced (https://unsourced.app), an external service that logs and displays AI bot activity for your site. A connection to this service is required for the plugin to function.

What data is transmitted:

• Your site URL
• The URL of the page being visited by the bot
• The detected bot name and raw User-Agent string
• The visitor IP address

When data is sent:

Only when a request matches a known AI bot signature AND a valid Unsourced API key has been configured in the plugin settings. Human visitors generate no data transmission.

Service links:

• Website: https://unsourced.app
• Terms of Service: https://unsourced.app/terms
• Privacy Policy: https://unsourced.app/privacy