Bots by company
Brave bots and crawlers
Brave runs the Brave browser and Brave Search, which uses its own independent index.
Brave bots at a glance
- Brave runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Search Engine Crawlers.
- Each Brave bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: brave.com
Every Brave bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bravebot | Search Engine Crawlers | AI searchSearch indexReported | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all Brave bots
The rules below name every Brave token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Brave bots
User-agent: Bravebot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Brave bots
User-agent: Bravebot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Brave bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Bravebot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Brave bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Bravebot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Brave bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Bravebot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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