BotD is an open source library that we created to make it easy for every developer to detect basic bots in their web apps.
It is available under a permissive MIT license and will always be free for developers and commercial use.
For more demanding applications we created a professional API-based bot detection software that is called Fingerprint Pro Bot Detection.
<script>
// Initialize an agent at application startup, once per page/app.
const botdPromise = import('https://openfpcdn.io/botd/v1').then((Botd) => Botd.load())
// Get detection results when you need them.
botdPromise
.then((botd) => botd.detect())
.then((result) => console.log(result))
.catch((error) => console.error(error))
</script>npm i @fingerprintjs/botd
# or
yarn add @fingerprintjs/botdimport { load } from '@fingerprintjs/botd'
// Initialize an agent at application startup, once per page/app.
const botdPromise = load()
// Get detection results when you need them.
botdPromise
.then((botd) => botd.detect())
.then((result) => console.log(result))
.catch((error) => console.error(error))Fingerprint Pro Bot Detection is a professional bot detection service that processes all information server-side and transmits it securely to your servers using server-to-server APIs.
Fingerprint Pro Bot Detection provides both browser and server-side APIs that make the process of bot detection fast and secure. When using the Pro Bot Detection, use the browser JavaScript SDK to obtain the requestID value and then verify this value using our server API.
The Pro product combines vast amounts of auxiliary data that bots leak (cursor movements, network overrides, browser changes and more) to be able to reliably deduplicate real users from automated software, resulting in the detection of popular automation tools, their derivatives and plugins.
A big advantage of the Pro detection is that it's able to distinguish good bots from bad ones that allow you to block malicious traffic without blocking search engine crawlers, monitoring workers, etc.
Full product comparison:
| Open Source | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% open source | yes | no1 |
| Search engine detection works in all modern browsers - see our full list of browsers supported | – | ✓ |
| Automation web services detection | – | ✓ |
| Automation browser extensions detection | – | ✓ |
| Headless Browsers (Chrome, Firefox) | ✓ | ✓ |
| seleniumHQ/selenium umbrella project encapsulating a variety of tools and libraries enabling web browser automation | ✓ | ✓ |
| microsoft/playwright Node.js library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API | ✓ | ✓ |
| ariya/phantomjs headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript | ✓ | ✓ |
| segmentio/nightmare high-level browser automation library | ✓ | ✓ |
| electron/electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS | ✓ | ✓ |
| laurentj/slimerjs scriptable browser | ✓ | ✓ |
| berstend/puppeteer-extra/packages/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth plugin for puppeteer-extra to prevent detection. | - | ✓ |
| microlinkhq/browserless efficient driver for controlling headless browsers built on top of puppeteer developed for scenarios where performance matters | - | ✓ |
| ultrafunkamsterdam/undetected-chromedriver optimized Selenium Chromedriver patch which does not trigger anti-bot services | - | ✓ |
| MeiK2333/pyppeteer_stealth stealth plugin for pyppeteer | - | ✓ |
| Server-side accuracy increase based on additional server-side data, such as TLS crypto support, ipv4/v6 data and others | – | ✓ |
| Query API build flexible workflows | – | ✓ |
| Data security | Your infrastructure | Encrypted at rest |
| Storage | Your infrastructure | Unlimited up to 1 yr |
| Regions | Your infrastructure | Hosting in US, EU and Mumbai |
| Compliance | Your infrastructure | GDPR, CCPA compliant2 |
| SLA | No SLA | 99.9% Uptime |
| Support | GitHub community | Support team via email, chat, and call-back within 1 business day |
1. Pro uses the open source BotD library as well as proprietary technology for increased accuracy and result stability.
2. Fingerprint Pro is GDPR and CCPA compliant as the data processor. You still need to be compliant as the data controller and use the bot detection for fraud prevention under legitimate interest or ask for user consent.
Pro result example:
{
"bot": {
"result": "bad"
"type": "selenium"
}
}📕 Fingerprint Pro documentation
The library supports all popular browsers. See more details and learn how to run the library in old browsers in the browser support guide.
Thanks to our series B funding, we are happy to provide technical support for our open-source BotD library. We recommend using GitHub Issues to submit bugs or Discussions to ask questions. Using issues and discussions publicly will help the open-source community and other users with similar issues. However, if you require private support, please email us at [email protected].
See the Contribution guidelines to learn how to contribute to the project or run the project locally. Please read it carefully before making a pull request.
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