---
title: BotCategory
summary: Categories of detected bots.
url: https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/compute/sdks/rust/fastly/http/request/enum.BotCategory/
---

**Kind:** Enum  
**Module:** [request](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/compute/sdks/rust/fastly/http/request/)  
**Package:** fastly 0.13.1  
**Source:** https://docs.rs/crate/fastly/0.13.1/source/src/http/request.rs#195

```rust
#[non_exhaustive]
pub enum BotCategory {
    None,
    Suspected,
    Accessibility,
    AiCrawler,
    AiFetcher,
    ContentFetcher,
    MonitoringSiteTools,
    OnlineMarketing,
    PagePreview,
    PlatformIntegrations,
    Research,
    SearchEngineCrawler,
    SearchEngineSpecialization,
    SecurityTools,
    Headless,
    Unknown,
}
```

Categories of detected bots.

## Variants

### None

Bot detection was not executed, or no bot was detected.

### Suspected

A suspected bot.

### Accessibility

Tools that make content accessible (e.g., screen readers).

### AiCrawler

Crawlers used for training AIs and LLMs, generally used for building AI models or indexes.

### AiFetcher

Fetchers used by AIs and LLMs for enriching results in response to a user query.

### ContentFetcher

Tools that extract content from websites to be used elsewhere.

### MonitoringSiteTools

Tools that access your website to monitor things like performance, uptime, and proving domain control.

### OnlineMarketing

Crawlers from online marketing platforms (e.g., Facebook, Pinterest).

### PagePreview

Tools that access your website to show a preview of the page in other online services and social media platforms.

### PlatformIntegrations

Integration with other platforms by accessing the website's API, notably Webhooks.

### Research

Commercial and academic tools that collect and analyze data for research purposes.

### SearchEngineCrawler

Crawlers that index your website for search engines.

### SearchEngineSpecialization

Tools that support search engine optimization tasks (e.g., link analysis, ranking).

### SecurityTools

Security analysis tools that inspect your website for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and other security features.

### Headless

Headless bot.

### Unknown

The detected bot belongs to a category not recognized by this SDK version.

## Trait implementations

### impl Clone for BotCategory

#### clone

**Source:** https://docs.rs/crate/fastly/0.13.1/source/src/http/request.rs#193

```rust
fn clone(&self) -> BotCategory
```

**Parameters**

- `self`: `&Self`

**Returns**

`BotCategory`

### impl Debug for BotCategory

#### fmt

**Source:** https://docs.rs/crate/fastly/0.13.1/source/src/http/request.rs#193

```rust
fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result
```

**Parameters**

- `self`: `&Self`
- `f`: `&mut $crate::fmt::Formatter`

**Returns**

`$crate::fmt::Result`

### impl Display for BotCategory

#### fmt

**Source:** https://docs.rs/crate/fastly/0.13.1/source/src/http/request.rs#255

```rust
fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result
```

**Parameters**

- `self`: `&Self`
- `f`: `&mut std::fmt::Formatter`

**Returns**

`std::fmt::Result`

### impl From<u32> for BotCategory

#### from

**Source:** https://docs.rs/crate/fastly/0.13.1/source/src/http/request.rs#231

```rust
fn from(value: u32) -> Self
```

**Parameters**

- `value`: `u32`

**Returns**

`Self`

### impl PartialEq for BotCategory

#### eq

**Source:** https://docs.rs/crate/fastly/0.13.1/source/src/http/request.rs#193

```rust
fn eq(&self, other: &BotCategory) -> bool
```

**Parameters**

- `self`: `&Self`
- `other`: `&BotCategory`

**Returns**

`bool`

## Auto trait implementations

- `Freeze`
- `RefUnwindSafe`
- `Send`
- `Sync`
- `Unpin`
- `UnsafeUnpin`
- `UnwindSafe`

## Blanket implementations

- `Any`
- `Borrow<T>`
- `BorrowMut<T>`
- `CloneToUninit`
- `Downcast`
- `DowncastSync`
- `Equivalent<K>`
- `ErasedDestructor`
- `From<T>`
- `Into<U>`
- `IntoEither`
- `Same`
- `ToOwned`
- `ToString`
- `TryFrom<U>`
- `TryInto<U>`