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A collection of automated agents operated by Cloudflare for infrastructure management, security, and performance optimization. Operated by Cloudflare, Inc..

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Verified Bot
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Bot
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AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is cloudflare?

Cloudflare operates a suite of automated agents that perform critical functions across its global network, including security scanning, performance optimization, and infrastructure health checks. These bots are integral to the Cloudflare platform, ensuring that traffic is routed efficiently and protected from malicious actors. They operate transparently as part of the infrastructure layer, providing services like WAF (Web Application Firewall) updates and edge-caching validation.

Helpful — These agents are essential for the operation of the Cloudflare network, providing security, caching, and performance benefits to websites.

Identification

Bot name
cloudflare
Operator
Cloudflare, Inc.
Category
Verified Bot
Verification
Community-sourced
Main use cases
Security and threat mitigationContent delivery and cachingInfrastructure health monitoring

Why it crawls your site

Cloudflare agents crawl or probe websites to verify origin server availability, update security rules, and ensure that cached content remains synchronized with the source. This activity is necessary to maintain the integrity and speed of the websites protected by their network. Site administrators can verify these requests by checking that the source IP addresses belong to Cloudflare's published IP ranges and by validating the request headers against Cloudflare's official documentation.

IP ranges

Requests from cloudflare originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.

Block or allow cloudflare

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for cloudflare in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block cloudflare from crawling your entire site
User-agent: cloudflare
Disallow: /

# Allow cloudflare full access
User-agent: cloudflare
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows cloudflare. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

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Last updated July 21, 2026