Cloudflare Web Scanner
recommended: allow
Operated by Cloudflare
search engine
Cloudflare Web Scanner is a well-behaved crawler that checks domain liveness, content type, robots.txt directives, and other web properties to map the shape of the web.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
CloudflareWebScanner
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Cloudflare Web Scanner:
Allow full access
User-agent: CloudflareWebScanner
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: CloudflareWebScanner
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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See Cloudflare Web Scanner on your own site
Botscope shows every bot and AI agent hitting your site — and lets you allow, challenge, or block each one. Observe first, enforce when you're ready.
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