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I have set the robot detection on form as true following the doc on https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/users/93/sitecore-experience-platform/work-with-robot-detection-for-forms.html

Then I created a selenium python script to submit the form. Its able to submit form without any issue.

My question here is how to validate/verify if robot detection is actually working or not?

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Ensure that your instance is Standalone or ContentDelivery, as if you review Sitecore.Analytics.Tracking.RobotDetection.config the robot detection pipelines don't run on the ContentManagement role.

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If you don't trust the robot detection or if it is not giving you the right functionality, you could always try and use a Recaptcha.

Sitecore Forms Extensions uses a Google Recaptcha component. http://onelittlespark.bartverdonck.be/sitecore-forms-extensions-for-sitecore-9-3/

In cases of my projects I had issues because of GDPR laws. It restricted the use of cookies if someone does not have accepted the cookies. This will cause Sitecore to always see a visitor as a Robot since there is no cookie to validate it with.

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  • Thanks Danny! it helps. Commented Mar 15, 2023 at 19:02
  • You're very welcome. Glad I could help.
    – Danny Paul
    Commented Feb 14 at 14:24
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In order to know does Sitecore thinks the user is human, it saves true or false value to cookie SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE.

For example if the value of cookie SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE is: ef86f68776cf417db46dd217cc60807d|True

Sitecore thinks the user is human. If the value is false Sitecore thinks it is a robot. You could try to read this value with the same python script and see does Sitecore thinks its a robot or not. If the value is false(robot), the problem probably lies in a form itself.

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  • Understood, Is there any way to cross verify if robot detection I enabled is actually working other than script. Commented Aug 18, 2022 at 12:40

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