# Exclude bots from leads list? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-bots-from-leads-list/2989 "2015-12-16T12:24:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![katalysis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/katalysis/32/38_2.png) [@katalysis](https://forum.mautic.org/u/katalysis)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-bots-from-leads-list/2989/1 "2015-12-16T12:24:55Z")
My leads list is filling up with visits from Google in Mountain View, California and various other bots that crawl my site for good or evil. These are generally excluded from results in Piwk and Google Analytics etc. Is there any way Mautic can also exclude non-human traffic from its lead list? ---
**Author:** ![katalysis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/katalysis/32/38_2.png) [@katalysis](https://forum.mautic.org/u/katalysis)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-bots-from-leads-list/2989/2 "2015-12-16T12:24:55Z")
My leads list is filling up with visits from Google in Mountain View, California and various other bots that crawl my site for good or evil. These are generally excluded from results in Piwk and Google Analytics etc. Is there any way Mautic can also exclude non-human traffic from its lead list? ---
**Author:** ![escopecz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/escopecz/32/370_2.png) [@escopecz](https://forum.mautic.org/u/escopecz)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-bots-from-leads-list/2989/3 "2015-12-16T15:15:54Z")
You can exclude any IP address from Mautic tracking. The option is in the configuration. So you can filter out the IP addresses which are obviously bots. You can even publish this list of IPs for other Mautic users. However, the leads from Mountain View doesn’t have to be always bots. It’s also IP address a lead will get if she/he opens an email in GMail. ---
**Author:** ![ondra.knezour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@ondra.knezour](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ondra.knezour)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-bots-from-leads-list/2989/4 "2015-12-17T06:31:27Z")
You can also use the robots.txt file to disallow all (not misbehaving) robots at once with something like User-agent: \* Disallow: /path-to-your-mautic/mtracking.gif ---
**Author:** ![destineo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@destineo](https://forum.mautic.org/u/destineo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-bots-from-leads-list/2989/5 "2015-12-21T02:59:04Z")
how about adding support for [http://www.useragentstring.com/](http://www.useragentstring.com/) or a UI where crawlers/bots can be excluded? ---
**Author:** ![escopecz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/escopecz/32/370_2.png) [@escopecz](https://forum.mautic.org/u/escopecz)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 7:57am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-bots-from-leads-list/2989/6 "2015-12-21T07:57:52Z")
@destineo I like your ideas, but could you explain them in more depth? ---
**Author:** ![davejones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@davejones](https://forum.mautic.org/u/davejones)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-bots-from-leads-list/2989/7 "2016-02-16T16:24:43Z")
Here’s a good example of a bot/device detection. [https://github.com/piwik/device-detector](https://github.com/piwik/device-detector) ---
**Author:** ![escopecz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/escopecz/32/370_2.png) [@escopecz](https://forum.mautic.org/u/escopecz)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-bots-from-leads-list/2989/8 "2016-02-17T12:19:44Z")
Yep, that’s something we’d like to see in Mautic as well. Would you mind creating a new feature request at [https://github.com/mautic/mautic/issues](https://github.com/mautic/mautic/issues) ? ---
**Author:** ![silavapi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/silavapi/32/7424_2.png) [@silavapi](https://forum.mautic.org/u/silavapi)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-bots-from-leads-list/2989/9 "2020-02-02T22:56:20Z")