PayPal
GoodBotVerifiedBOTThe PayPal webhooks is part of Paypal's Instant Payment Notification message service, automatically notifying merchants of events related to Paypal transactions. Operated by PayPal.
What is PayPal?
PayPal is a web crawler operated by PayPal. The PayPal webhooks is part of Paypal's Instant Payment Notification message service, automatically notifying merchants of events related to Paypal transactions.
Identification
PayPalWhy it crawls your site
PayPal crawls websites to deliver webhook payloads and verify endpoints. It is operated by PayPal as part of their webhook delivery infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow PayPal
Add a Disallow rule for PayPal 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 PayPal from crawling your entire site User-agent: PayPal Disallow: / # Allow PayPal full access User-agent: PayPal Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows PayPal. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to PayPal's documentation.
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