Stop abusive bots before they scrape, hammer, or overload your XenForo forum.
XF Bot Guard helps protect XenForo forums from abusive bots, scrapers, fake browser traffic, AI crawlers, registration abuse, and bot-driven server load.
It validates real browsers before protected public pages are served, scores suspicious behaviour, challenges risky visitors with XenForo CAPTCHA, allows verified search crawlers, and gives admins clear logs, reason codes, dashboard reporting, health checks, and controls.
It works without Cloudflare, installs as a normal XenForo add-on, and ships with conservative defaults so you can test safely before widening protection.
Early users report dramatic reductions in bot-driven traffic, restored site stability, fewer server/database issues, and responsive support during real bot storms.
Why XF Bot Guard exists
A lot of modern bot traffic does not behave like old forum spam.
It may not register.
It may not post.
It may not trigger normal anti-spam tools.
Instead, it quietly hammers thread pages, crawls content, inflates guest activity, overloads SQL, ignores robots.txt, pretends to be a browser, or arrives as fake crawler traffic.
XF Bot Guard is designed to catch that type of traffic earlier, before it is allowed to freely browse protected forum content.
What it helps protect against
- Aggressive scrapers crawling forum content
- Fake browser traffic that does not behave like a real visitor
- AI crawler and automated bot traffic
- Bot-driven server, PHP, and database load
- Fake or inflated guest/member online activity
- Suspicious registration and login-adjacent abuse
- Bots pretending to be search engines
- Repeated suspicious requests from hosting networks, proxies, and automated environments
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