Bot detection

This power-up checks if the requests are coming from a bot or not. 

To use Bot detection power up, log in to your stape.io account, open the sGTM container, go to the Power Ups tab, and click Bot detection power up. After that, enable the power-up and click Save.

Bot Detection consists of:

• X-Device-Bot - can be true or false.
• X-Device-Bot-Score - checks the probability of whether it is a bot. A score of 100 (the maximum) certainly indicates it's a bot.

You can create a variable on the server container with the type 'Request Header' and specify ‘X-Device-Bot’ in it to receive the value of this header.

Use this variable as an additional check in your GA4 trigger on the server and also in any other triggers where you want to limit the impact of bot traffic:

Now, if the request is determined to be from a bot - your tag will not trigger and the data will not be sent!

Use cases of the power-up

• Filtering spam in GA4 with Stape's Bot detection power-up