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24 alternatives to Hares.io

Track hosting providers IP addresses for crawlers and bots

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hares.io launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Alright so if you run a self-hosted blog, you've probably noticed AI companies scraping it for training data. And not just a little (RIP to your server bill). There isn't much you can do about it without cloudflare. These companies ignore robots.txt, and you're competing with teams with more resources than you. It's you vs the MJs of programming, you're not going to win. But there is a solution. Now I'm not going to say it's a great solution...but a solution is a solution. If your website contains content that will trigger their scraper's safeguards, it will get dropped from their data…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Search engine for bots

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Build bots using Node.js, in your browser!

    2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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    Telegram bot for domain monitoring

    2023 · yourdomainbot.online · its alternatives →

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    Rabbits▲246

    Outsource programming tasks as simple as sending an email

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Gobot▲184

    The Citymapper bot

    2016 · citymapper.com · its alternatives →

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    Helping developers make bots great again

    2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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    Chatbase▲152

    Chatbot analytics for developers by Google

    2017 · chatbase.co · its alternatives →

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    Zilly▲80

    A smart bot for WordPress resources

    2016 · wpshout.com · its alternatives →

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    No AI crawl without compensation! ✊

    2025 · cloudflare.com · its alternatives →

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    Deploy any JavaScript SPA, with automatic SEO indexing

    2019 · feathery.io · its alternatives →

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    Never lose track of a website again.

    2014 · fetching.io · its alternatives →

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    Track the bots and AI agents crawling your website

    May 2026 · knownagents.com · its alternatives →

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    Connecting chatbot developers with businesses

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Hey all! I'm building these collection of APIs to help query SERP, PDP and Reviews data from Ecommerce sites solo since the past few years. I have hundreds of customers and revenue. ScrapingBee (a popular scraping API service) has started copying me now so I thought of doing a Show HN finally. Please butcher my product. I'd really appreciate your feedback. Do reach out via email if you'd like extra free credits, will add them to your account if your email address doesn't look like spam.

    2024 · docs.unwrangle.com · its alternatives →

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    Zenbo▲99

    Your smart little companion bot

    2016 · zenbo.asus.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, I’m Kamil. The past months have been filled with news about ChatGPT, Bard, etc. Thankfully, there are some heroic attempts to bring that power to the users. I wanted to contribute to that effort with my side project, an extension for Chrome: it makes searching the history by meaning – instead of the exact words – possible. This is only a proof of concept, building on the excellent transformers.js[0], and running entirely in the browser. My goal here is to explore the possibilities unlocked by a client-side AI. I would love to have your feedback, to know which direction that project…

    2023 · getpinbot.com · its alternatives →

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    Your automated API support with a slack bot

    2016 · apiassistant.com · its alternatives →

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    Since the last Show HN 7 months ago, I've shipped some major updates: • Operators Directory – browse 160+ crawlers by company (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.). See all their bots, safety stats, and official docs in one place. • Enhanced crawler profiles with "Blocking Impact" analysis and common use cases • Added 25+ new AI crawlers including latest models and scrapers • Bulk robots.txt generator – generate allow/block rules for all filtered bots in one click • RFC 9309 strict compliance – mimics Googlebot's exact "Longest Match" logic The tool now helps answer "who owns CCBot?" or…

    2025 · crawlercheck.com · its alternatives →

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    IPDetective collects data from about 60+ different sources such as official cloud provider endpoints and public VPN/Proxy/Tor/Bot net lists. Then aggregates this data into a fast and easy to use API that can be integrated into applications or scripts easily. IPDetective started as a hobby project for my other hobby projects :) and I decided to wrap a simple website around and offer it as a service. Let me know what your thoughts, if you find value in this service or if you have any feature requests.

    2022 · ipdetective.io · its alternatives →

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    Hello HackerNews! I would like to invite you to test drive a project I've been working on for qute a while: https://seobots.io This is the long awaited (by myself) release of a concept that I have first presented a few years back. The initial idea was to create a platform capable of hosting small scripts which I constantly make for work and grating everyone access to them, without the need for downloading anything from github or console knowledge requirements. These scripts (aka "bots") can do all sorts of things, such as scraping, posting, parsing – you name it. If you are a…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Bunt▲7

    A Bot Understanding Testbed

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WordPress for bots

    2016 · imperson.com · its alternatives →

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    SERPHouse – The most reliable and blazing-fast SERP API.

    May 2026 · serphouse.com · its alternatives →

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