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stripewebhook

Name: stripewebhook
Author: Stripe

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An automated agent used by Stripe to deliver event notifications to merchant servers. Operated by Stripe.

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Assessment

Webhooks

What is stripewebhook?

Stripewebhook is the official delivery mechanism for Stripe's event-driven architecture, enabling real-time communication between Stripe's servers and a merchant's backend. It triggers HTTP POST requests to pre-configured endpoints whenever specific events occur, such as successful payments, subscription renewals, or charge disputes. This ensures that external systems remain synchronized with the financial data processed through the Stripe platform.

Helpful — It is a critical infrastructure component for processing payment events and transaction updates.

Identification

Bot name

stripewebhook

Operator

Stripe

Why it crawls your site

This agent does not crawl the web in the traditional sense; instead, it performs targeted delivery of JSON payloads to specific URLs defined by the user in their Stripe dashboard. It operates to ensure that merchants can programmatically respond to financial events without manual intervention. Operators can verify this bot by checking that the incoming requests originate from Stripe's documented IP ranges and by validating the webhook signatures provided in the request headers.

IP ranges

Requests from stripewebhook 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 stripewebhook

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for stripewebhook 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 stripewebhook from crawling your entire site
User-agent: stripewebhook
Disallow: /

# Allow stripewebhook full access
User-agent: stripewebhook
Allow: /