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00:36

2026-09-22

dev.to

ai-crawlers

Something Asked for My .env File Twenty Times. It Said It Was ClaudeBot.

A developer's AI crawler dashboard recorded 20 requests for the site's /.env secrets file over seven days, all claiming to be ClaudeBot, while only 68% of ClaudeBot traffic that week could be verified…

03:31

2026-08-22

dev.to

ai-infrastructure

AI crawler user agents are self-reported: 468 real fetches, 991 fake ones

A developer found that most AI crawler traffic on their site is fake, with only 468 of 1,459 requests actually fetching articles. Using Cloudflare's verifiedBotCategory, they showed that only 13% of G…

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ai infrastructure 1 developer tools 1 ai crawlers 1 ai safety 1 ai policy 1