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Cloudflare Crawler

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

The Cloudflare Crawler is a well-behaved crawler that retrieves web content. By default, it self-identifies as a bot, honors robots.txt directives, and cannot bypass CAPTCHAs or bot protection. Used by Cloudflare customers via the Browser Run /crawl endpoint. Operated by Cloudflare.

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Assessment

AI Crawler

What is Cloudflare Crawler?

Cloudflare Crawler is a web crawler operated by Cloudflare. The Cloudflare Crawler is a well-behaved crawler that retrieves web content. By default, it self-identifies as a bot, honors robots.txt directives, and cannot bypass CAPTCHAs or bot protection. Used by Cloudflare customers via the Browser Run /crawl endpoint. It is part of the growing wave of AI-powered crawlers that collect web data for training and improving AI models.

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

Identification

Bot name

Cloudflare Crawler

Operator

Cloudflare

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

Yes

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

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Cloudflare Crawler crawls websites to collect and process web content for AI model training and improvement. It is operated by Cloudflare as part of their AI and machine learning infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Cloudflare Crawler

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler/1.0 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 Cloudflare Crawler from crawling your entire site
User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler/1.0
Disallow: /

# Allow Cloudflare Crawler full access
User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler/1.0
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler/1.0. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Cloudflare's documentation.