Identification
Bot name
SofyaBot
Category
Search Engine Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
sofyabot
User-agent patterns
SofyaBotUser-agent string
SofyaBot/1.0 (+https://sofya.co/bot)
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
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
- SofyaBot - Sofya
- Aggressive Latvian Academic Integrity bot that does not help us.
- Aggressive Latvian Academic Integrity bot that does not help us.
- Web Robots: baiduspider bad bot ignores robots.txt
- AI Crawl Control robots.txt injection ignores settings across 4 zones (Disallow per - Application Security / Bot Management - Cloudflare Community
Block or allow SofyaBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for SofyaBot 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 SofyaBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: SofyaBot Disallow: / # Allow SofyaBot full access User-agent: SofyaBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows SofyaBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
Cloudflare Radar traffic
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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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