Verified bots
A verified bot is a bot which has been added to Cloudflare's list of verified bots.
You can request for your bot to be added to Cloudflare's bots and agents directory by filling out an online application ↗ in the Cloudflare dashboard.
For a bot to be verified, it must meet the following requirements:
- The bot must follow verified bots policy.
- The bot must be verified using one of the following verification methods:
Once Cloudflare approves a verified bot, it should appear on Cloudflare Radar's bots and agents directory ↗.
Once Cloudflare lists a bot as a verified bot, this entry is cached and may get delisted if no traffic is seen in the Cloudflare network coming from the bot for a defined period of time.
It takes 24 hours for an inactive IP to be removed as a verified bot.
A bot can remain unlisted until Cloudflare sees traffic being sourced from the bot. When the bot is revalidated, it is listed as a verified bot again.
The bot must be verified using one of the following validation methods:
You can segment your verified bot traffic by its type and purpose by adding the Verified Bot Categories field cf.verified_bot_category as a filter criteria in WAF Custom rules, Advanced Rate Limiting, and Late Transform rules.
| Name | String value | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Academic research | Academic Research | Library of Congress, TurnItInBot, Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Accessibility | Accessibility | Accessible Web Bot |
| Advertising or marketing | Advertising & Marketing | Google Adsbot |
| Aggregators | Aggregator | Pinterest, Indeed Jobsbot |
| AI Assistant | AI Assistant | Perplexity-User, DuckAssistBot |
| AI Crawler | AI Crawler | Google Bard, ChatGPT bot |
| AI Search | AI Search | OAI-SearchBot |
| Archiver | Archiver | Internet Archive, CommonCrawl |
| Feed fetcher | Feed Fetcher | RSS or Podcast feed updaters |
| Monitoring or analytics | Monitoring & Analytics | Uptime Monitors |
| Page preview | Page Preview | Facebook, Slack, Twitter, or Discord Link Preview tools |
| Search engine crawler | Search Engine Crawler | Googlebot, Bingbot, Yandexbot, Baidubot |
| Search engine optimization | Search Engine Optimization | Google Lighthouse, GT Metrix, Pingdom, AddThis |
| Security | Security | Vulnerability Scanners, SSL Domain Control Validation (DCV) Check Tools |
| Social media marketing | Social Media Marketing | Brandwatch |
| Webhooks | Webhooks | Payment processors, WordPress Integration tools |
| Other | Other |
Verified Bot Categories is available on all plans.
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