{
  "name": "Bot user-agent claims checked against published IP ranges, weekly",
  "version": "2026-W43",
  "updated": "2026-10-25T12:00:00.000Z",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)",
  "licenseScope": "Our counts and descriptions. Bot names and the operators' published pages belong to their operators and are not covered.",
  "attribution": "Crawlerpeek (https://crawlerpeek.com/data/fake-bots), with a link to https://crawlerpeek.com/data/fake-bots",
  "cite": "Crawlerpeek. (2026). Fake bot requests: weekly verification study (Version 2026-W43) [Data set]. https://crawlerpeek.com/data/fake-bots",
  "note": "Four small websites we operate. Verified means the client address was inside the operator's published IP lists; unverified is not proof of a fake. A week is partial when an operator's list was unavailable or the archive did not cover all seven days.",
  "weeks": [
    {
      "week": "2026-W43",
      "start": "2026-10-19",
      "end": "2026-10-25",
      "method": "one-off",
      "sites": 4,
      "daysCovered": 7,
      "partial": false,
      "partialReason": [],
      "totals": {
        "claimed": 7428,
        "verified": 7096,
        "unverified": 332,
        "percentVerified": 95.5
      },
      "networks": {
        "claimingTwoOrMoreBots": 1,
        "mostBotsOneNetwork": 8,
        "requestsLargestNetwork": 287,
        "unverifiedWithoutReverseName": 45
      },
      "bots": [
        {
          "bot": "oai-searchbot",
          "operator": "OpenAI",
          "claimed": 2356,
          "verified": 2315,
          "unverified": 41,
          "percentVerified": 98.3,
          "listStatus": "fresh"
        },
        {
          "bot": "googlebot",
          "operator": "Google",
          "claimed": 2003,
          "verified": 1923,
          "unverified": 80,
          "percentVerified": 96,
          "listStatus": "fresh"
        },
        {
          "bot": "claudebot",
          "operator": "Anthropic",
          "claimed": 748,
          "verified": 719,
          "unverified": 29,
          "percentVerified": 96.1,
          "listStatus": "fresh"
        },
        {
          "bot": "applebot",
          "operator": "Apple",
          "claimed": 685,
          "verified": 685,
          "unverified": 0,
          "percentVerified": 100,
          "listStatus": "fresh"
        },
        {
          "bot": "ahrefsbot",
          "operator": "Ahrefs",
          "claimed": 651,
          "verified": 651,
          "unverified": 0,
          "percentVerified": 100,
          "listStatus": "fresh"
        },
        {
          "bot": "gptbot",
          "operator": "OpenAI",
          "claimed": 524,
          "verified": 493,
          "unverified": 31,
          "percentVerified": 94.1,
          "listStatus": "fresh"
        },
        {
          "bot": "chatgpt-user",
          "operator": "OpenAI",
          "claimed": 200,
          "verified": 162,
          "unverified": 38,
          "percentVerified": 81,
          "listStatus": "fresh"
        },
        {
          "bot": "bingbot",
          "operator": "Microsoft",
          "claimed": 168,
          "verified": 133,
          "unverified": 35,
          "percentVerified": 79.2,
          "listStatus": "fresh"
        },
        {
          "bot": "perplexitybot",
          "operator": "Perplexity",
          "claimed": 54,
          "verified": 12,
          "unverified": 42,
          "percentVerified": 22.2,
          "listStatus": "fresh"
        },
        {
          "bot": "ccbot",
          "operator": "Common Crawl",
          "claimed": 36,
          "verified": 0,
          "unverified": 36,
          "percentVerified": 0,
          "listStatus": "fresh"
        },
        {
          "bot": "claude-user",
          "operator": "Anthropic",
          "claimed": 3,
          "verified": 3,
          "unverified": 0,
          "percentVerified": 100,
          "listStatus": "fresh"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}