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title: ToolRouter — Use Case
description: Step-by-step guide for a real-world ToolRouter use case with agent-specific instructions.
url: https://toolrouter.com/tools/ip-geolocation/use-cases/identify-bot-traffic
---
# Identify Bot and Crawler Traffic

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.

**Tool:** [IP Geolocation](https://toolrouter.com/tools/ip-geolocation)
**Skills:** bulk_lookup

## Agent Guides

- [How to Identify Bot Traffic with Claude](https://toolrouter.com/tools/ip-geolocation/use-cases/identify-bot-traffic/claude): Guide for Claude
- [How to Identify Bot Traffic with ChatGPT](https://toolrouter.com/tools/ip-geolocation/use-cases/identify-bot-traffic/chatgpt): Guide for ChatGPT
- [How to Identify Bot Traffic with Copilot](https://toolrouter.com/tools/ip-geolocation/use-cases/identify-bot-traffic/copilot): Guide for Copilot
- [How to Identify Bot Traffic with OpenClaw](https://toolrouter.com/tools/ip-geolocation/use-cases/identify-bot-traffic/openclaw): Guide for OpenClaw
