Bots by company
Cloudflare bots and crawlers
Cloudflare runs a global network and offers AI Search (formerly AutoRAG) for its customers.
Cloudflare bots at a glance
- Cloudflare runs 2 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Search Crawlers, AI Training Crawlers.
- Each Cloudflare bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.cloudflare.com
Every Cloudflare bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare-AutoRAG | AI Search Crawlers | AI searchProduct featureReported | Yes | Your choice |
| CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler | AI Training Crawlers | Product featureOfficial docs | Yes | Your choice |
Block or allow all Cloudflare bots
The rules below name every Cloudflare 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 Cloudflare bots
User-agent: Cloudflare-AutoRAG
User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Cloudflare bots
User-agent: Cloudflare-AutoRAG
User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Cloudflare bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Cloudflare-AutoRAG
User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Cloudflare bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Cloudflare\-AutoRAG|CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Cloudflare bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Cloudflare\-AutoRAG|CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "Cloudflare-AutoRAG") or (http.user_agent contains "CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler")See which of these bots actually reach your website
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