by
Daan Verbaan
4.7 (3 reviews)
AI Scrape Protect
Protect your website from AI scraping by adding opt-out instructions to your robots.txt file and including meta tags in the HTML ``.
AI Scrape Protect ranks #11,288 among WordPress.org plugins with 200+ active installations, is #678 of 4,033 in the Security category, a 4.7/5 rating from 3 reviews, and was last updated May 23, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.0.2
v5.0
Current Version v5.0
Updated 2 months ago
Last Update on 23 May, 2026
Refreshed 14 hours ago
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#678 of 4,033 in Security
Top 25% by installs
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94%
Review 4.7 out of 5
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Showing 4 of 4| Keyword | Position | Change | Type | Updated |
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| AI scraping protection | 1 | — | Tag | 2 days ago |
| scraping | 4 | — | Tag | 2 days ago |
| robots.txt | 20 | — | Tag | 2 days ago |
| AI | 189 | — | Tag | 2 days ago |
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- Version
- 5.0
- Last Updated
- May 23, 2026
- Requires WP
- 5.0+
- Tested Up To
- 7.0.2
- PHP Version
- 8.0 or higher
- Author
- Daan Verbaan
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about AI Scrape Protect
The plugin adds specific User-agent entries to your robots.txt file to instruct common AI scraping bots not to crawl your site. It also adds meta tags in the HTML <head> to signal AI bots that your content should not be used for training or summarisation.
No. robots.txt and meta tag directives are voluntary signals. Most reputable AI companies respect them, but malicious or poorly behaved scrapers may not. This plugin is a measure to discourage scraping, not a technical enforcement mechanism.
No. When a physical robots.txt file exists, WordPress's virtual robots.txt is bypassed entirely, and this plugin's modifications will not be applied. The plugin will display a warning on its settings page when a physical file is detected. Remove or rename the physical file to allow the plugin to function.
Yes. Go to Settings > AI Scrape Protect and open the Custom Bots tab. Enter the exact user agent token as it appears in your server logs.
AI Training bots collect your content to train language models. AI Search & Answers bots retrieve content to generate answers for users of AI search tools like ChatGPT Search or Perplexity. Blocking AI Search bots may prevent your site from appearing in AI-generated answers. Blocking AI Training bots does not affect your visibility in regular search engines.
Search engine bots such as Googlebot and Bingbot are allowed by default. Disabling one will add it to the blocked list and remove it from the explicit allow block in robots.txt. Only do this if you intentionally want to remove your site from that search engine.
Yes. Use the individual toggles on the settings page to control each bot separately.
Developers can use this filter to add or modify bots programmatically from a theme or another plugin, without editing the plugin files directly.
Settings are stored per site using standard WordPress options. Network-wide configuration is not supported.
Your settings are preserved in the database. Reactivating the plugin will restore your previous configuration. If you want to remove all plugin data, use the "Apply default settings" button before deactivating, or delete the options manually from the database.
