Introduction
Botdeflector protects websites and applications from automated abuse such as spam, credential stuffing, fake signups, scraping, and bot-driven fraud.
It is designed to be hard on bots and easy on humans, with a privacy-first approach made in Europe.
Why teams choose Botdeflector
- Privacy by design: no cookies and no storage of end-user personal data.
- Compliance ready: built to support GDPR and audit-friendly security requirements.
- Easy integration: add the widget to your form and verify a token on your backend.
- Flexible challenges: configure challenge types and difficulty in the portal.
- Useful insights: monitor bot activity and traffic patterns in the dashboard.
- Direct support: get help from the core development team.
Common use cases
Botdeflector is used across industries, including:
- E-commerce: reduce purchase bots, scraping, and fraudulent checkouts.
- SaaS: prevent credential stuffing, account takeover, and abuse of signup flows.
- News and publishing: limit content scraping and protect service quality.
- Gaming and ticketing: stop farming, scalping, and unfair automation.
- Banking and finance: strengthen fraud prevention and account security.
How Botdeflector works
1. Integration
Add the Botdeflector widget to your protected flow, for example a login, registration, contact, or checkout form.
2. Challenge
The user completes a challenge. Botdeflector returns a verification token tied to that interaction.
3. Submission
When the form is submitted, your application sends the token to your backend.
4. Verification
Your backend validates the token through the Botdeflector API. If valid, continue the user action. If invalid, block or challenge again.
What you need to integrate
- A Botdeflector account and site configuration.
- The widget snippet on your frontend.
- A server-side verification call in your backend.
You can complete the basic setup in minutes. Continue with Getting Started for a full step-by-step integration guide.