內容簡介
JTZL's Bot Maze 外掛旨在保護您的 WordPress 網站，防止不必要的 AI 爬蟲和資料擷取者。透過隱藏的陷阱連結，讓爬蟲迷失在虛假的頁面迷宮中，同時根據其行為建立懷疑分數。
【主要功能】
• 隱形陷阱連結注入，對人類訪客無影響
• 應需生成的懶惰迷宮頁面
• 爬蟲行為評分系統
• 可配置的注入方法（內容、頁尾或兩者）
• 反向 DNS 驗證已知搜尋引擎爬蟲
• 分析儀表板顯示爬蟲活動
外掛標籤
開發者團隊
原文外掛簡介
JTZL’s Bot Maze protects your WordPress site from unwanted AI crawlers and scrapers by planting invisible trap links that only bots will follow. When a bot enters the trap maze, it gets lost in an ever-expanding maze of realistic-looking fake pages while it quietly builds a suspicion score based on its behavior.
How it works:
Trap link injection — Invisible links are added to your real pages. Legitimate visitors never see them, but bots following every link on the page will enter the trap maze.
Lazy maze generation — Trap pages link to more trap pages, generated on demand. The deeper a bot goes, the more time it wastes.
Bot scoring — Each trap page visit adds suspicion points. Deeper traversal earns bonus points. Once a threshold is reached, the visitor is flagged as a bot.
Blocking and tarpitting — Flagged bots can be blocked outright (403), served decoy pages (light tarpit), or slowed down with a deliberate delay (full tarpit).
Crawler verification — Known search engine crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, etc.) are verified via reverse DNS and exempted from scoring.
Features:
Zero impact on legitimate visitors — trap links are hidden from humans and search engines
Configurable injection method (content, footer, or both)
Adjustable scoring thresholds and blocking behavior
robots.txt integration to signal trap paths as disallowed
Analytics dashboard showing bot activity, top IPs, and score distribution
Blocked Bots detail page showing full user agent, score, visit history
Optional comprehensive tracking mode to monitor blocked bot persistence
Automatic log retention and maintenance via WP-Cron
Privacy policy suggestion for GDPR compliance
Geographic heat map of bot activity by country with two GeoIP provider options
MaxMind GeoLite2 local database — all lookups on your server, GDPR-friendly (recommended)
ip-api.com external API — simple setup, no license key required
Optional AbuseIPDB reporting for eligible blocked public IP addresses, with a one-press catch-up for blocked bots that carry no report yet
Lightweight — minimal footprint, geographic tracking is fully optional
Third-Party Services
Every external service listed below is optional and off by default. No data is sent to any of them unless a site administrator explicitly enables the corresponding feature.
MaxMind GeoLite2 (Recommended)
When MaxMind GeoLite2 is selected as the GeoIP provider (Settings > Bot Maze > Geographic Tracking), the plugin downloads the GeoLite2-Country database from MaxMind and performs all IP-to-country lookups locally. No visitor data leaves your server.
What is downloaded: The GeoLite2-Country database (~60 MB), downloaded weekly via WP-Cron from download.maxmind.com.
What is sent to MaxMind: Only your license key during database downloads. No visitor IP addresses are shared.
Requires: A free MaxMind license key from maxmind.com/en/geolite2/signup.
Service website: https://www.maxmind.com
License: GeoLite2 databases are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Terms of service: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geolite2/eula
ip-api.com
When ip-api.com is selected as the GeoIP provider, the plugin sends visitor IP addresses to ip-api.com to resolve their country of origin. This data is used to display a geographic heat map of bot activity in the admin dashboard.
What is sent: The visitor’s IP address only, over unencrypted HTTP.
When it is sent: At the time a trap page visit is recorded, only while this provider is selected.
Service website: http://ip-api.com
Terms of service: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal
Privacy policy: ip-api.com does not log queries from the free API endpoint.
Note: The free tier only supports HTTP (not HTTPS). If your site must comply with GDPR, use the MaxMind local database option instead.
Geographic tracking is off by default and requires explicit opt-in by a site administrator.
AbuseIPDB Reporting
AbuseIPDB reporting is off by default. It requires explicit enablement plus an administrator-owned AbuseIPDB account and API key from the API dashboard. Protect the API key like a password.
An address is queued for reporting in exactly three situations:
A non-verified crawler’s persisted score crosses the configured blocking threshold.
An address that is already blocked requests a trap page while reporting is on, which is fresh evidence it is still crawling the maze.
An administrator presses the catch-up button on the Blocked Bots page, which covers blocked addresses AbuseIPDB has not accepted a report for, whatever the reason.
Every queued address must also be publicly routable. Private, loopback, reserved, documentation and multicast addresses are never reported, because AbuseIPDB only accepts reports about addresses reachable on the public internet. Verified search engine crawlers are never scored in the first place, so they are never candidates.
The catch-up in (3) reports each address against the time it was actually last seen, rather than the time the button was pressed, and covers addresses seen within your configured data retention period (Settings > Bot Maze > Maintenance, 30 days by default). That is the period you have declared this evidence meaningful for, and the same period after which the plugin deletes the record, so the catch-up offers exactly the blocked addresses your site still holds evidence for. It reports up to 500 addresses per press.
In all three cases the report sends only the public IP address, category 19 (Bad Web Bot), the time of the observation being reported, and a generic explanation for security reporting. It sends these four fields over HTTPS to the AbuseIPDB service. It never sends the user agent, referrer, trap URL, session, score, or traversal depth.
The plugin limits reports to once per IP address in any 24-hour period. A queued report that cannot be delivered for seven days is abandoned. Delivery runs in the background through WP-Cron, so reports may wait on low-traffic sites and are not real-time. Disabling reporting or clearing the key stops delivery and deletes queued reports.
The current free Individual plan includes 1,000 IP checks and reports per day. See AbuseIPDB pricing; your account limit may differ. Review AbuseIPDB’s terms and privacy policy before enabling reporting.
Cloudflare IP Ranges
When the Trusted Client IP Header is set to Cloudflare (CF-Connecting-IP) (Settings > Bot Maze > Trusted Proxy), the plugin fetches Cloudflare’s published edge IP range lists from cloudflare.com to keep the trusted-proxy allowlist current without any manual action.
What is requested: Two public plain-text files — cloudflare.com/ips-v4 and cloudflare.com/ips-v6 — fetched weekly via WP-Cron.
What is sent: No visitor or user data. The HTTP request reveals only your server’s own IP address to Cloudflare.
Service website: https://www.cloudflare.com
Terms of service: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/
This fetch only runs while the Cloudflare trusted client IP header is selected. If the fetch fails validation, the previously stored list (or a bundled fallback) is kept — a failed response never narrows or widens the trusted set.
