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Cookiebot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Cookiebot scans the website for cookies and trackers to gather and provide the information on a cookie banner. Operated by Cybot A/S.

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

What is Cookiebot?

Cookiebot is a web crawler operated by Cybot A/S. Cookiebot scans the website for cookies and trackers to gather and provide the information on a cookie banner.

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

Identification

Bot name
Cookiebot
Operator
Cybot A/S
Category
Security
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
cookiebot
User-agent patterns
Cookiebot
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Cookiebot/1.0; +http://cookiebot.com/) Chrome/101.0.4951.54 Safari/537.36
Main use cases
Security scanningVulnerability detectionThreat assessment

Why it crawls your site

Cookiebot crawls websites to scan for security vulnerabilities and potential threats. It is operated by Cybot A/S as part of their security infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Cookiebot

Block it

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

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

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

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadar
Last updated July 21, 2026