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Identify Bot and Crawler Traffic

Distinguish legitimate crawlers from malicious bots by analyzing the ISP and hosting provider information of visitor IPs.

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Not all traffic is human. Bots, crawlers, scrapers, and automated tools can account for a significant portion of website requests. Some are legitimate -- Googlebot indexing your pages -- while others are scrapers stealing content, credential stuffers attacking login forms, or click fraud inflating ad spend.

IP geolocation reveals the ISP and hosting provider behind each IP address. Legitimate users come from residential ISPs and mobile carriers. Bots typically originate from cloud hosting providers, data centers, and VPN services. Bulk lookup lets you classify thousands of IPs at once to separate human traffic from automated traffic.

This intelligence helps you tune rate limiting, adjust bot filtering, validate analytics accuracy, and protect against automated attacks. When you know that 30% of your traffic comes from AWS and DigitalOcean IPs, you can investigate what those bots are doing and whether they should be blocked.

Agent Guides

Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask Claude: "Bulk look up these IPs using ip-geolocation and identify which are from hosting providers"
  3. Claude classifies each IP by ISP type
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ChatGPT

  1. Configure ToolRouter in ChatGPT
  2. Ask: "Bulk look up these IPs and classify them as residential or data center"
  3. ChatGPT resolves all IPs and categorizes by ISP type
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Copilot

  1. Add ToolRouter to Copilot MCP config
  2. In Copilot Chat: "Bulk look up these IPs and flag hosting provider origins"
  3. Copilot classifies each IP by provider type
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask OpenClaw: "Bulk look up these IPs and identify bot traffic"
  3. OpenClaw classifies each IP by ISP and hosting type
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