Verify a crawler's identity: is this IP + user-agent really Googlebot, Bingbot, ...
https://how.is/v1/bot/verifyOverview
Verify a crawler's identity: is this IP + user-agent really Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot or ClaudeBot, an impostor using the name, another bot, or a person?
Protocol
x402 (POST)
Price
$0.0050
Payment Asset
USD Coin
Payment Network
eip155:8453
Category
uncategorized
Provider
how.is
Source
bazaar
Indexed
2026-10-27 23:28:43
Health
Status
unknown
Latency (p50)
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Uptime (30d)
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Reliability Score
—
Last Checked
Never
Last Healthy
Never
Consecutive Failures
0
x402 Payment Validation
Payment Requirements
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Asset Verified
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Facilitator
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Input Schema
{
"body": {
"ip": "20.171.207.1",
"ua": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
}
Output Schema
{
"example": {
"data": {
"_shape": "data: verdict (verified / impostor / unknown_bot / likely_human_or_unclassified), confidence, automation_likely, claimed, identified_as{operator, method, evidence}, reasons[], how_to_act, checks{published_ranges, reverse_dns, asn}, observatory{network, fingerprint, claimed_family, impostors_seen}."
},
"receipt": {
"charge_usd": 0.005,
"rail": "x402",
"settlement_tx": "0x…",
"tool": "bot_verify"
},
"result": "Crawler identity check for the requested subject"
},
"type": "json"
}