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C99Bot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTThe C99Bot crawls public pages on sites Channel99 customers ask us to measure, plus URLs AI assistants cite.
Identification
Bot name
C99Bot
Category
SEO
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
c99bot
Rated Oct 24, 2026 from public evidence
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
- I wonder if it will actually respect the robots.txt this time. | Hacker News
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- 20 Common Robots.txt Issues (and How to Avoid Them)
- Problems with web crawlers not respecting robots.txt file - Application Security / SSL / TLS - Cloudflare Community
- AI-bot robots.txt blocker – ClassifAI
Block or allow C99Bot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for C99Bot 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 C99Bot from crawling your entire site User-agent: C99Bot Disallow: / # Allow C99Bot full access User-agent: C99Bot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows C99Bot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
Cloudflare Radar traffic
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Links & references
Data sources
This profile is compiled from the following sources.
CloudflareRadar
Last updated October 25, 2026
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