Cookiebot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTCookiebot scans the website for cookies and trackers to gather and provide the information on a cookie banner. Operated by Cybot A/S.
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.
Identification
CookiebotHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- The Major Companies and Media Outlets Blocking OpenAI's Crawler GPTBot - Business Insider
- Known Agents Review: Google Analytics for Bots | Agent Finder
- HUMAN and TollBit Empower Websites with Robust Bot Management and Content Monetization Solutions for AI Agents
- llms-txt: The /llms.txt file, v2
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
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: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Cookiebot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Cybot A/S's documentation.
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