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Cloudflare Validator

Name: Cloudflare Validator
Author: Cloudflare

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Cloudflare Validator makes requests to verify IPs for Cloudflare Bots Directory Operated by Cloudflare.

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Assessment

Other

What is Cloudflare Validator?

Cloudflare Validator is a web crawler operated by Cloudflare. Cloudflare Validator makes requests to verify IPs for Cloudflare Bots Directory

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

Identification

Bot name

Cloudflare Validator

Operator

Cloudflare

Why it crawls your site

Cloudflare Validator 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.

Block or allow Cloudflare Validator

Block it

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

# Allow Cloudflare Validator full access
User-agent: Cloudflare-Validator
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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