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Bright Data bots and crawlers
Bright Data sells web data collection tools and datasets.
Bright Data bots at a glance
- Bright Data runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Training Crawlers.
- Each Bright Data bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: brightdata.com
Every Bright Data bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brightbot | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingProduct featureOfficial docs | Yes | Your choice |
Block or allow all Bright Data bots
The rules below name every Bright Data 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 Bright Data bots
User-agent: Brightbot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Bright Data bots
User-agent: Brightbot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Bright Data bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Brightbot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Bright Data bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Brightbot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Bright Data bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Brightbot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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