Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic

Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.

v1.32.0Known AgentsUpdated Added 1k+ installs96% rating0% support resolved
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Score
37
Errors
12
Warnings
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Change

Category Scores

Security32
Repo94
Performance100
Maintainability75

Issues to Review

Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan

49 findings

Maintainability

29

8 issue groups

Security

19

2 issue groups

Repo Compliance

1

1 issue group

ERRORSecuritySetting is missing a sanitization callbackSanitization missing for register_setting().13
Category
Security
Occurrences
13
Severity
error

Sample message

Sanitization missing for register_setting().

WARNINGMaintainabilityerror log error logerror_log() found. Debug code should not normally be used in production.11
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
11
Severity
warning

Sample message

error_log() found. Debug code should not normally be used in production.

ERRORMaintainabilityMissing direct file access protectionPHP file should prevent direct access. Add a check like: if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;7
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
7
Severity
error

Sample message

PHP file should prevent direct access. Add a check like: if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;

ERRORSecurityOutput is not escapedAll output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$robots_txt'.6
Category
Security
Occurrences
6
Severity
error

Sample message

All output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$robots_txt'.

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations fcloseFile operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fclose().4
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
4
Severity
error

Sample message

File operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fclose().

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations fopenFile operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fopen().2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

File operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fopen().

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations is writableFile operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: is_writable().2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

File operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: is_writable().

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations fwriteFile operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fwrite().1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

File operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fwrite().

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations touchFile operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: touch().1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

File operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: touch().

WARNINGMaintainabilitymismatched plugin namePlugin name "Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic" is different from the name declared in plugin header "Known Agents".1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Plugin name "Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic" is different from the name declared in plugin header "Known Agents".

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ERRORRepo Complianceoutdated tested upto header1
Category
Repo Compliance
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

Tested up to: 6.9 < 7.0. The "Tested up to" value in your plugin is not set to the current version of WordPress. This means your plugin will not show up in searches, as we require plugins to be compatible and documented as tested up to the most recent version of WordPress.

External Connections

Potential connections found in static code analysis.

3 domains

Outbound calls

25

External assets

0

Incoming endpoints

0

Notable Domains

knownagents.com20 · outbound
api.knownagents.com4 · outbound

Platform / Reference Domains

gnu.org1 · platform/reference

External Asset Domains

No external asset domains detected.

Incoming Endpoints

No public endpoints detected.

Score History

First score snapshot

v1.32.0

57

Latest

Findings
49
Errors
37
Warnings
12
Check
2.0.0

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