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CriteoBot

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Criteo Crawler is a software that visits web pages and analyzes its content to serve relevant ads on them. Operated by Criteo.

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Assessment
Advertising & Marketing
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is CriteoBot?

CriteoBot is a web crawler operated by Criteo. Criteo Crawler is a software that visits web pages and analyzes its content to serve relevant ads on them.

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

Identification

Bot name
CriteoBot
Operator
Criteo
Category
Advertising & Marketing
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
criteobot
User-agent patterns
CriteoBot/
User-agent string
CriteoBot/0.1 (+https://www.criteo.com/criteo-crawler/)
Main use cases
Web crawlingData collection

Why it crawls your site

CriteoBot crawls websites to collect data for advertising and marketing purposes. It is operated by Criteo as part of their advertising infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow CriteoBot

Block it

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

# Allow CriteoBot full access
User-agent: CriteoBot/
Allow: /
Allow & verify

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

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

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Last updated July 21, 2026