Settings
Go to Settings → ScraperBlock. The page has two tabs: General and Logs.
Core Features
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Enable Protection | On | Master switch. When off, bots aren't blocked (meta tags and robots.txt rules follow their own toggles) |
| robots.txt Blocking | On | Adds Disallow: / rules for every blocked bot to your robots.txt. See Robots.txt Control |
| .htaccess Blocking | Off | Writes user-agent rules to .htaccess (Apache only). See Htaccess Blocking |
| noai / Meta Tags | On | Adds noai and noimageai meta tags to every page. See Meta AI Tags |
| Per-page Control | On | Adds a "Disable protection for this page/post" option to the post and page editor. See Per-Page Control |
| Allow AI Search Bots | Off | Lets AI search and assistant bots (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, MistralAI-User) read your pages so your site can appear in AI answers. AI training crawlers stay blocked. Applies to runtime blocking, robots.txt and .htaccess rules. See Bot Blocklist |
| Basic Rate Limiting | On, 60 requests per minute | Limits how many pages one visitor who isn't logged in can request per minute. See Rate Limiter |
| Custom User-agents | Empty | Your own user-agent patterns to block, one per line |
| Default Bot List | - | Shows the built-in list of blocked bots (read-only) |
Click Save Settings to apply changes. Reset to Defaults restores all settings to their defaults.