About Botwatch.xyz
Botwatch is a passion project that tracks how bots, crawlers, and scrapers interact with websites — separating the curious from the malicious, and shining a light on what automated traffic is really doing online.
🔍 What We Do
- Log every request’s IP, headers, user agent, and route
- Detect headless bots, scrapers, and impersonators
- Deploy traps like fake admin pages and hidden fields
- Identify bad bots and known crawlers
💭 Why We Do It
- Over 50% of web traffic is bots — and many are harmful
- We want to validate these stats with real data
- Reveal where bots come from and how they behave
- Expose botnets and stealth scraping attempts
📊 What’s Coming
- A public dashboard to view bot activity in real time
- A leaderboard of top bots ranked by behavior
- Breakdowns by country, provider, and crawl type
- Open data for researchers and curious devs
- Add an email address to the website and track who & what is sent to it