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GEFTBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTSearch crawler operated by GEFT. One passive discovery crawl per site; obeys robots.txt; signed with Web Bot Auth.
Identification
Bot name
GEFTBot
Category
Search Engine Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
geftbot
Rated Oct 24, 2026 from public evidence
How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
Names itself honestly
Yes
Verified by Cloudflare
Yes
Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs
Yes
Ignores site rules
None found
Disguises itself or evades blocks
None found
Overloads sites
None found
How widely people complain
No complaint about this bot in the evidence
Reddit discussion
There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence
What we read
- GPTBot ignoring robots.txt and hammering single URL in a loop — potential infinite crawl bug - Community - OpenAI Developer Community
- I wonder if it will actually respect the robots.txt this time. | Hacker News
- Robots.txt vs. AI Blockers: Managing Who Scrapes Your Content
- No Robots(.txt): How to Ask ChatGPT and Google Bard to Not Use Your Website for Training | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- robots.txt - Wikipedia
Block or allow GEFTBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for GEFTBot 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 GEFTBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: GEFTBot Disallow: / # Allow GEFTBot full access User-agent: GEFTBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows GEFTBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
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Links & references
Data sources
This profile is compiled from the following sources.
CloudflareRadar
Last updated October 25, 2026
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