AI Scrape Protect — WordPress Security Plugin
by Daan Verbaan · WordPress.org page · Website
AI Scrape Protect has 300+ active installs on WordPress.org and 3,930 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on May 23, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.
AI Scrape Protect at a glance
Is AI Scrape Protect well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Adds User-agent and Disallow rules to your robots.txt file to block a comprehensive list of AI scraping bots
- Generates compact robots.txt output: all blocked bots are grouped under a single Disallow: / directive
- Introduces meta tags in the HTML <head> to provide additional instructions to AI bots
- Separate toggles for content meta tags (noai, nosummary, DisallowAITraining) and image meta tags (noimageai)
- Settings page with five categorised tabs: Search Engines, AI Training, AI Search & Answers, General Indexing, Custom Bots
- Group toggle per category to block or allow all bots in that category at once
- Individual per-bot toggle with description and company information for each bot
- Custom bots tab: add and remove your own user agent strings
- Global enable/disable toggle and separate toggles for robots.txt and meta tags
- “Apply default settings” button to reset all options
- Admin bar icon linking to the settings page (visible to administrators only). Icon reflects the current enabled state
- Physical robots.txt detection notice: warns you if a file in your root directory overrides WordPress’s virtual robots.txt
AI Scrape Protect reviews and ratings
3 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Works good but !
The plugin works great. The only thing I miss is a simple interface where I can select, using checkboxes, the bots I want to block or allow in the robots.txt file. I believe this would be extremely helpful and would represent a significant quality improvement for the plugin, Dan. For example, I currently have Bingbot blocked, and I would like to be able to fix this without having to modify the code or the plugin itself.4 starts for now! 5 if you do something with that! See u and good job
metajohn -
Super handy
Really a super handy plugin. For me personally, I'd like to be able to manage the settings. So I'm looking forward to the next version. Or maybe interaction with the wikipedia entry List_of_bots.
Marten Moolenaar -
Easy to manage, does the job
For me, it's important that the content that I worked so hard on isn't used without my permission. This plugin helps me keep AI scraper bots off my website. I tested several of them and it works! Also, it is really easy to manage and looks like it gets updated very regularly, which is essential at the pace that things are moving. Long story short, I've installed it on both my websites. Very happy.
hagetisse
Details
Protect your website from AI scraping by adding opt-out instructions to your robots.txt file and including meta tags in the HTML ``.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Rankings AI Scrape Protect competes in
Tags
- AI
- AI scraping protection
- robots.txt
- scraping
- security
- Version
- 5.0
- Last updated
- May 23, 2026
- First published
- Sep 18, 2024
- Requires WordPress
- 5.0
- Tested up to
- 7.0.4
- Requires PHP
- 8.0
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
AI Scrape Protect FAQ
What does AI Scrape Protect do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, AI Scrape Protect offers Adds User-agent and Disallow rules to your robots.txt file to block a comprehensive list of AI scraping bots, Generates compact robots.txt output: all blocked bots are grouped under a single Disallow: / directive, Introduces meta tags in the HTML <head> to provide additional instructions to AI bots, Separate toggles for content meta tags (noai, nosummary, DisallowAITraining) and image meta tags (noimageai) and Settings page with five categorised tabs: Search Engines, AI Training, AI Search & Answers, General Indexing, Custom Bots.
How many active installs does AI Scrape Protect have?
WordPress.org reports 300+ active installs for AI Scrape Protect as of September 7, 2026.
Is AI Scrape Protect still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on May 23, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.
Does AI Scrape Protect have good support?
On the WordPress.org forum, 1 of 1 recent support threads for AI Scrape Protect are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.
Is AI Scrape Protect free?
AI Scrape Protect is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.