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Bravebot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Brave search has a crawler to discover new pages and index their content. Operated by Brave Software, Inc..

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

AI Search

What is Bravebot?

Bravebot is a web crawler operated by Brave Software, Inc.. Brave search has a crawler to discover new pages and index their content.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Bravebot

Operator

Brave Software, Inc.

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Bravebot crawls websites to index and analyze web content for AI-powered search results. It is operated by Brave Software, Inc. as part of their AI-powered search infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Bravebot

Block it

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

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

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Bravebot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Brave Software, Inc.'s documentation.