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Next.js Bot Detection: Block AI Crawlers at the Edge
Community description: Edge middleware, honeypot routes, and origin fingerprinting — a working three-layer guide to blocking AI crawlers in a normal Next.js app.
Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | webdecoy
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This is a working guide to all three in a normal Next. js project: an edge gate on every request, honeypot routes that catch the bots that lie, and an origin fingerprint check for the signal the edge genuinely cannot see. So the architecture becomes: gate cheaply at the edge, trap the liars with honeypots, run the fingerprint check at the origin where the signal lives. The shape that works in Next.
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