Cloudflare Radar URL Scanner
GoodBotVerifiedBOTA specialized security tool that performs deep analysis of URLs to identify potential threats, phishing attempts, and technical infrastructure details. Operated by Cloudflare.
What is Cloudflare Radar URL Scanner?
Cloudflare Radar URL Scanner is a security-focused diagnostic tool operated by Cloudflare as part of their Radar platform. It provides users with comprehensive technical reports on specific URLs, including security posture, performance metrics, and infrastructure configuration. By simulating a user visit in a controlled environment, it helps security professionals and developers identify malicious content, misconfigurations, or performance bottlenecks without exposing their own systems to potential threats.
Identification
Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls specific URLs at the explicit request of users who utilize the Cloudflare Radar URL Scanner tool. It performs these fetches to generate a detailed security report, which includes data on HTTP headers, DNS records, page performance, and potential phishing indicators. This activity is strictly reactive, triggered by user input to assist in threat intelligence and security investigations.
Block or allow Cloudflare Radar URL Scanner
Add a Disallow rule for 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 Radar URL Scanner from crawling your entire site User-agent: Disallow: / # Allow Cloudflare Radar URL Scanner full access User-agent: Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows . Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Cloudflare's documentation.
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