ai-crawler-honeypot
A public record of what AI crawlers actually do.
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Details
- External ID
- 1277119
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ai-crawler-honeypot
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Artificial Intelligence, Security
Description
A public log of AI crawler requests to this domain. Real client IPs are never stored. Public log at /log/today. I built this honeypot as a public log to showcase how AI crawlers act in real time, using the robots.txt standard if they follow robots.txt or if they ignore it. I also built this to give anyone using AI crawlers an insight of how there crawler is behaving on a live site.
Enrichment
- Niche
- ai agent security and monitoring tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- honeypot tracker for ai web crawlers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The service is a lightweight web server with honeypot routes that parses incoming user-agents against known AI crawler lists and logs them to a public page.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 64 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #40 of 65 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 225 days after the earliest competitor.
- Bravo Crawler Hunter · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- IndexGraph · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time · hn · 2026-07-17 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Drosera · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- dear robots · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Swarm Tracker · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- AIWebSignals · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Botview.app · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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