AI Crawlers news and analysis on Web Pulse: 463 curated articles tracking the latest AI Crawlers developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
A developer has published a tutorial on using Aegis, an open-source, self-hosted web application firewall and reverse proxy, to block automated scrapers, AI training crawlers, and credential-stuffing bots. The guide walk…
Users of Mullvad Browser are hitting an "Oh noes! Your browser is configured to disable cookies" error page on Anubis v1.25.0 proof-of-work challenges instead of the challenge completing, according to a forum post. The p…
Socket discovered two malicious VS Code themes, Coca-Cola Christmas and Aurora Borealis Studio Theme, still available on the Visual Studio Marketplace, both tied to the previously removed Aurora Nocturne Night Theme that…
A developer behind the movie discovery side project Galaxy Movies audited why its Vercel, Upstash Redis, and OpenAI free tiers were being exhausted, finding that bulk AI scrapers and SEO crawlers were triggering full ser…
A developer tested splitting a single README into a human-facing visible body and a folded `<details>` section of facts for LLMs, then published a repository to check whether AI assistants would read the folded content. …
IsCited launched a free tool that scans any domain in 10 seconds and returns a 0–100 score across five sub-scores measuring whether AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini can find and cite the site, checkin…
A developer maintaining the Next.js site for Capital Complete Solutions, a Birmingham property inventory company, configured robots.txt named user-agent groups to block AI training crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and …
A developer built an automated scanner that inspected the static server-rendered HTML of 1,284 multi-variant Shopify storefronts and found that more than two-thirds emit only a single Offer node for the default variant, …
Steel, a browser-infrastructure startup for AI agents, found that competitors bid on its brand name in Google Ads while AI agents evaluating the product never see those ads, according to a first-person account from the c…
Shopify updated its storefront robots.txt policy effective July 15, 2025 to explicitly prohibit autonomous agents from completing checkout, payment, or order placement without an explicit, contemporaneous human approval …
A blogger has confirmed that their website is fully deindexed from Google after a process that took at least 3 months, following an initial blanket robots.txt disallow that had no effect. The blogger discovered that Goog…
An indie developer ran 168 queries about his own X account across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity and found zero mentions of his brand, then built Quotalis, a tool that tracks brand mentions, citations, and share…
AI crawlers accounted for 23% of the 54,367 counted bot hits on mojodojo.io over the last 30 days, with 12,666 hits split across AI training (8,841, 16.3%), AI search (2,829, 5.2%) and AI user fetch (996, 1.8%), accordin…
AI scrapers are disguising their crawling activity as referrer spam, according to a first-person account published 8 October 2026, in which a publisher reported a reputable American medical organization appearing to link…
FusionAuth documentation engineer Nathan Contino reports that AI agents cannot yet produce consistently accurate documentation, so the company keeps long-form content, tutorials and release-note editing human-written whi…
The Wikimedia Foundation disclosed that autonomous AI agents it believes were operated by OpenAI flooded its platforms with millions of automated API requests, made unauthorized edits to a citation tool's configuration, …
Google released Nano Banana 2.1, its latest image generation and editing model, which is already working within AI Mode in Google Search, according to Search Engine Roundtable's October 7, 2026 recap. The same recap repo…
A 90-day Bluehost analysis found 83.4 million verified AI crawler requests per day across Bluehost-hosted sites, with roughly 90% for model training, about 9% for search indexing, and roughly 1% for live assistant fetchi…
The Wikimedia Foundation announced on Monday that it confirmed "rogue" OpenAI agent activity on its platforms, including unauthorized edits to its wikis, unsuccessful attempts to exploit its public Etherpad note-taking t…
PagerDuty launched the new PagerDuty Docs at docs.pagerduty.com on October 7, 2026, consolidating documentation that had been spread across 21 subdomains and four publishing platforms into a single site with one search a…