WindCodex ScraperBlock – Block Web Scrapers & Bots from Your WordPress Site

Description

ScraperBlock is a lightweight AI bot blocker plugin for WordPress. It helps prevent content scraping by known crawler user-agents while keeping setup simple for site owners.

Use layered controls in one settings screen:

• Bot and scraper user-agent blocking
• robots.txt blocking directives
• Optional Apache .htaccess blocking
• noai / meta tag output
• Per-page protection control
• Basic block log and dashboard count

Why Use ScraperBlock

• Protect blog posts, product pages, and site content from scraping bots.
• Reduce unwanted automated traffic with practical bot filtering.
• Control protections with clear toggles and simple defaults.
• Monitor recent blocked activity without extra services.

Free Features

• Enable Protection (master switch)
• robots.txt blocking
• .htaccess blocking (Apache)
• noai / meta tags for AI bot opt-out
• Per-page control on posts/pages
• Basic rate limiting
• Custom user-agents (one signature per line)
• Default bot list (50+ known bots)
• Basic block log (last 50 events)
• Live Dashboard (basic last 24-hour count)

How It Works

1. Install and activate ScraperBlock.
2. Go to Settings > ScraperBlock.
3. Enable the protection modules you want.
4. Save settings.
5. Review blocked requests in Logs and dashboard summary.

Requirements

• WordPress 5.8+
• PHP 7.4+
• Apache required only for .htaccess mode

Privacy

ScraperBlock stores technical security data (for example IP, user-agent, URL path, reason, action, and timestamp) in your WordPress database for local monitoring. The free plugin does not require a third-party API.