Request.botCategory

The botCategory read-only property of the Request interface contains a string identifying the category of the detected bot.

Value

A String with the category of the bot or null if bot detection was not executed or no bot was detected.

The possible categories are:

• "none" - No bot was detected.
• "suspected" - A suspected bot.
• "accessibility" - Tools that make content accessible (e.g., screen readers).
• "ai-crawler" - Crawlers used for training AIs and LLMs, generally used for building AI models or indexes.
• "ai-fetcher" - Fetchers used by AIs and LLMs for enriching results in response to a user query.
• "content-fetcher" - Tools that extract content from websites to be used elsewhere.
• "monitoring-site-tools" - Tools that access your website to monitor things like performance, uptime, and proving domain control.
• "online-marketing" - Crawlers from online marketing platforms (e.g., Facebook, Pinterest).
• "page-preview" - Tools that access your website to show a preview of the page in other online services and social media platforms.
• "platform-integrations" - Integration with other platforms by accessing the website's API, notably Webhooks.
• "research" - Commercial and academic tools that collect and analyze data for research purposes.
• "search-engine-crawler" - Crawlers that index your website for search engines.
• "search-engine-optimization" - Tools that support search engine optimization tasks (e.g., link analysis, ranking).
• "security-tools" - Security analysis tools that inspect your website for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and other security features.
• "headless" - A headless bot.
• "unknown" - A bot was detected, but the current version of the SDK does not know what the value is. A newer version may be available with the real value.