# Problems with bot / scraper use

**URL:** <https://community.piwik.pro/t/problems-with-bot-scraper-use/931>\
**Category:** Data collection and tags\
**Created:** [August 25, 2022, 7:36am UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/problems-with-bot-scraper-use/931 "2022-08-25T07:36:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![MarkNL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@MarkNL](https://community.piwik.pro/u/MarkNL)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 7:36am UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/problems-with-bot-scraper-use/931/1 "2022-08-25T07:36:19Z")

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We’re running a Piwik pilot with a couple of organisations. In some occassions I see huge differences between the data in Google Analytics and Piwik (Piwik = higher, users x2,5 , pageviews sometimes x4).

In the session log I’ve found some sessions that are checking the news page of this site. Sessions that last 8 hours and refresh the news page every 10 minutes for example. I checked our Google Analytics, but I can’t find anything that would filter out this traffic. They probably don’t load the tracking code while scraping.

In Piwik, is there any way I can filter these ‘non-user sessions’ out in an easy way? Or not measure them at all would even be better.

Looking forward to a response,

Mark

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**Author:** ![kuba](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.piwik.pro/kuba/32/7_2.png) [@kuba](https://community.piwik.pro/u/kuba)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/problems-with-bot-scraper-use/931/2 "2022-08-25T08:09:50Z")

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Hi. You can filter them out both based on IP addresses and user agent strings in the Administration. I suggest using global settings for that.

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