Bot detection

Bot attacks evolved.
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Expose if automated visitors are good bots, bad bots, or AI agents.
Stop sophisticated threats with no added user friction.

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Browser bot detection and additional Smart Signals are available with Fingerprint Pro Plus and Enterprise.

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<script>
// Initialize the agent at application startup.
const fpPromise = import('https://fpjscdn.net/v4/<api-key>')
  .then(FingerprintJS => FingerprintJS.load())

fpPromise
  .then(fp => fp.get())
  .then(result => {
    // Result will contain the event_id property,
    // that you can securely verify on the server.
    const eventId = result.event_id
    console.log(eventId)
  })
</script>
 
{
    "bot": "not_detected",
    "ip_address": "186.XXX.XXX.XXX",
    "timestamp": "loading",
    "url": "https://fingerprint.com/products/bot-detection/",
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0",
    "event_id": "1672692443036.aCJ3kO"
}

API response details

Fingerprint provides a single response with three available parameters

1

"Good" if the bot is a search engine or friendly crawler

2

"Bad" if the bot is an automated tool or virtual machine

3

"Not Detected" if the visitor is not considered a bot

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Developer–friendly bot detection

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Extensive documentation

Our docs are written for developers — easy to read, easier to implement.

Lightweight agent

Minimal page speed impact, keeping your website fast.

Effortless implementation

Easily integrate into existing risk and fraud engines.

Fingerprint integrates with all major cloud providers

Cloud integrations enable you to run bot detection on edge in a secure context to harden and protect your bot detection logic. See for yourself — all cloud integrations are 100% open source.

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Stop advanced bots with Fingerprint

Malicious bots

Identify and continuously detect the most advanced bots around, and more importantly, bots attempting to emulate human traffic patterns and heuristics.

Automation tools

Detect automatic access to your site by commonly used technologies like selenium, puppeteer, playwright, and more.

Search bots

Identify search bots so you can let them crawl your web app unhindered, keeping your SEO rankings high across Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex and more.

Protect your website from the harmful effects of bots

Bots represent more than 40% of global website traffic and are responsible for the majority of cyberattacks. Bot attacks regularly cause data breaches, service outages and orchestrate account takeovers.

It is incredibly easy to spin up a bot farm that will use thousands of VMs to scan for critical information, perform XSS attacks and inject crypto-mining scripts, posing an existential risk to small and established websites alike.

How bots impact your site:

Malicious actors can easily buy login credentials and credit card numbers on the dark web, and test them on unsuspecting websites using bot farms. Identify automated attackers and lock them out before they can hijack customer accounts or make fraudulent purchases.

2021 was the worst year on record for infrastructure outages caused by ransomware attacks. Beyond the headlines, cyberattackers are not only targeting public-facing websites, but internal portals and dashboards in order to hold businesses hostage. These cyberattacks require careful planning and execution, which you can predict by using bot monitoring on every web application that your company is using.

Positive online reviews are worth their word count in gold. Stop businesses from generating fake reviews using bot networks, and protect the reputation of your online marketplace.

Whether it's vacation rentals listings or airline prices, content scraping is a headache that's impossible to solve by conventional blocking techniques. You need real-time bot protection for content scrambling and data poisoning to stay ahead of the scrape.

Web Bot Authentication

Verify RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures end‑to‑end. Run a quick check in the browser or use the curl example to test from your terminal.

Start testing →

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