Respond to new AI crawlers within 5 minutes instead of days and save 2 hours/week on manual log reviews.
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Known Agents monitors every AI bot and crawler that visits your site in real time. This workflow fires a Slack message to your team the instant a new, previously unseen crawler appears — with the bot's name, operator, and whether it's been classified as a content scraper. Your team can decide within minutes whether to block it or update your robots.txt, instead of discovering the damage weeks later.
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Step 1: In Known Agents, enable webhook alerts for 'new agent detected' events.
Step 2: In n8n, create a webhook trigger node that receives the Known Agents payload.
Step 3: Add an IF node to filter only new bots not previously seen (use the 'first_seen' flag in the payload).
Step 4: Format a Slack message block with the bot name, operator, classification, and a direct link to the Known Agents dashboard.
Step 5: Connect to your team's Slack channel using the Slack node and post the message.
Step 6: Test by simulating a new agent detection in Known Agents and confirm the Slack alert arrives within 30 seconds.
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Known Agents helps you see and control the AI bots and crawlers visiting your website. You get real-time analytics on bot traffic, automatic robots.txt management, and tools to block scrapers that steal your content. It's built for publishers, SaaS companies, and ecommerce businesses that want to understand — and profit from — the hidden wave of AI agents hitting their sites.
