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Claude

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ClaudeBot helps enhance the utility and safety of generative AI models by collecting web content that could potentially contribute to their training.

GoodBot
Assessment
AI Crawler
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources

Identification

Bot name
Claude
Category
AI Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
claude-anthropic
User-agent patterns
ClaudeBot
User-agent string
ClaudeBot/1.0 (+https://anthropic.com/claudebot)

Block or allow Claude

Block it

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

# Allow Claude full access
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Allow & verify

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

Traffic & trends

Cloudflare Radar traffic
6.1%

Share of bot traffic observed by Cloudflare Radar.

Google Trends interest

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Links & references

Operator documentation
www.anthropic.com/claude
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Cloudflare Radar: Claude
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/bots/claude-anthropic
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadar
Last updated September 8, 2026

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