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Cloudflare Web Scanner

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Cloudflare Web Scanner is a well-behaved crawler that checks domain liveness, content type, robots.txt directives, and other web properties to map the shape of the web.

GoodBot
Assessment
Search Engine Crawler
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources

Identification

Bot name
Cloudflare Web Scanner
Category
Search Engine Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
cloudflare-web-scanner
User-agent patterns
CloudflareWebScanner
User-agent string
CloudflareWebScanner/1.0

Block or allow Cloudflare Web Scanner

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for CloudflareWebScanner 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 Web Scanner from crawling your entire site
User-agent: CloudflareWebScanner
Disallow: /

# Allow Cloudflare Web Scanner full access
User-agent: CloudflareWebScanner
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows CloudflareWebScanner. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

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Data sources

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Last updated September 8, 2026

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