Cloudflare CSUP

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Operated by Cloudflare

What is Cloudflare CSUP?

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Cloudflare CSUP is a web crawler operated by Cloudflare. Cloudflare CSUP is a bot used by Cloudflare's customer support for diagnostic purposes. It is not a general web crawler and is used to investigate technical issues with customer websites.

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

Details

Bot Name
Cloudflare CSUP
Slug
cloudflarecsup
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified by Cloudflare
Category
Other
Operator
Cloudflare

User-Agent Patterns

cloudflare-csup

Full User-Agent Strings

cloudflare-csup

Main Use Cases

Web crawlingData collection

Why It Crawls Your Site

Cloudflare CSUP crawls websites to collect and process web content. It is operated by Cloudflare as part of their web crawling infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

How to Block / Whitelist

Block Cloudflare CSUP

Add a Disallow rule for cloudflare-csup 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 CSUP from crawling your entire site
User-agent: cloudflare-csup
Disallow: /

# Allow Cloudflare CSUP full access
User-agent: cloudflare-csup
Allow: /

Whitelist Cloudflare CSUP

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

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Traffic & Trends

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Data Sources

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Last updated: May 26, 2026