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Bushbaby

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Bushbaby is an internal bot used by Cloudflare. Its purpose is to manage and renew SSL certificates for websites that use Cloudflare's services. Operated by Cloudflare.

GoodBot
Assessment
Security
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is Bushbaby?

Bushbaby is a web crawler operated by Cloudflare. Bushbaby is an internal bot used by Cloudflare. Its purpose is to manage and renew SSL certificates for websites that use Cloudflare's services.

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

Identification

Bot name
Bushbaby
Operator
Cloudflare
Category
Security
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
bushbaby
User-agent patterns
bushbaby/
User-agent string
bushbaby/
Main use cases
Security scanningVulnerability detectionThreat assessment

Why it crawls your site

Bushbaby crawls websites to scan for security vulnerabilities and potential threats. It is operated by Cloudflare as part of their security infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Bushbaby

Block it

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

# Allow Bushbaby full access
User-agent: bushbaby/
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows bushbaby/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Cloudflare's documentation.

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadar
Last updated July 21, 2026