WindCodex ScraperBlock Pro

Overview

ScraperBlock Pro extends the free ScraperBlock plugin with enterprise-grade threat detection and response capabilities. Where the free version blocks known bots by user-agent signature, Pro adds behavioural analysis to catch bots that disguise themselves as browsers, honeypot traps to expose automated crawlers, geo-based blocking, IP access control lists, block scheduling by time window, WooCommerce-specific protections, and a full analytics dashboard.

Request Pipeline

Incoming Request
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      ├-[1]--→ IP Blocklist check --------------→ 403 if blocked IP
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      ├-[2]--→ IP Allowlist check --------------→ pass-through if whitelisted
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      ├-[3]--→ Geo-blocking check --------------→ 403 if blocked country
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      ├-[4]--→ Block Schedule check ------------→ applies if outside active hours
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      ├-[5]--→ User-agent matching --------------→ 403 if known bot UA
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      ├-[6]--→ Rate limit check ----------------→ 429 if over threshold
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      ├-[7]--→ Behavioral analysis --------------→ 403 if bot behaviour detected
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      └-[8]--→ Honeypot check ------------------→ 403 if honeypot triggered
                                                   Log + alert + analytics

Requirements

Requirement	Minimum
WordPress	5.8
PHP	7.4
ScraperBlock Free	Must be installed (not necessarily active)
MySQL	5.7 (for analytics table)

Free vs. Pro Comparison

Feature	Free	Pro
50+ AI bot user-agent blocking	✅	✅
Robots.txt directives	✅	✅
Meta noai / noimageai tags	✅	✅
Per-page control	✅	✅
Rate limiting	✅	✅
Htaccess blocking	✅	✅
Request logging	✅	✅
Behavioral detection	✗	✅
Honeypot traps	✗	✅
Content poisoning	✗	✅
Real-time threat feed	✗	✅
Geo-based blocking	✗	✅
IP allowlist	✗	✅
IP blocklist	✗	✅
Block scheduling	✗	✅
WooCommerce endpoint protection	✗	✅
Email alerts	✗	✅
Analytics dashboard	✗	✅
Multisite network support	✗	✅
Priority support	✗	✅

Developer Reference Installation