# Whipping Post

> AI agent and web crawler analytics platform. Track which AI bots visit your site, how often, and what they consume.

Whipping Post provides real-time analytics for AI crawler and agent traffic. As AI-powered search, coding assistants, and autonomous agents increasingly crawl the web, traditional analytics tools fail to distinguish this traffic from human visitors. Whipping Post solves this by identifying, categorising, and reporting on AI agent interactions with your web properties.

## Core Capabilities

- **AI Crawler Identification**: Detect and classify visits from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Amazonbot, CCBot, Bytespider, and 50+ other AI user agents
- **Real-Time Dashboard**: Live view of AI agent activity across your sites
- **Crawl Pattern Analysis**: Understand what pages AI agents prioritise, how frequently they return, and what content they extract
- **Agent Behaviour Trends**: Historical trends showing how AI crawling patterns evolve over time
- **User Agent Analytics (UA Analytics)**: Granular breakdown of traffic by bot type, origin, and behaviour
- **Alerting**: Get notified when new AI crawlers appear or crawling patterns change significantly

## Use Cases

- Website owners wanting to understand AI agent traffic to their sites
- SEO and content teams optimising for AI-powered search engines
- Security teams monitoring for unauthorised AI scraping
- Publishers tracking how AI models consume their content
- Developers building AI-friendly websites who want to verify crawler access

## API

Whipping Post exposes a REST API for programmatic access to crawler analytics data. Documentation available at https://whipping-post.ai/docs

## Links

- Website: https://whipping-post.ai
- Documentation: https://whipping-post.ai/docs
- API Reference: https://whipping-post.ai/api
- Crawler Directory: https://whipping-post.ai/crawlers
- Blog: https://whipping-post.ai/blog