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PlaywireAgent
GoodBotVerifiedBOTinternal tool used to verify that Playwire's ad technology is correctly installed and functioning on websites
Identification
Bot name
PlaywireAgent
Category
Advertising & Marketing
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
playwireagent
User-agent patterns
PlaywirePlaywireAgentUser-agent strings
Playwire/2.0
PlaywireAgent/1.0
Rated Oct 19, 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
Not stated
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
- Google Gemini Notebook Bot Ignores Robots.txt | Savvy Dealer
- ChatGPT's Fetch Bot Ignores Robots.txt. Now What?
- Web Robots: baiduspider bad bot ignores robots.txt
- Google just added a crawler that ignores robots.txt — Suganthan
- AI Crawl Control robots.txt injection ignores settings across 4 zones (Disallow per - Application Security / Bot Management - Cloudflare Community
Block or allow PlaywireAgent
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for Playwire 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 PlaywireAgent from crawling your entire site User-agent: Playwire Disallow: / # Allow PlaywireAgent full access User-agent: Playwire Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows Playwire. 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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