Verified bot categories
You can segment your verified bot traffic by its type and purpose by adding the Verified Bot Categories field cf.verified_bot_category as a filter criteria in WAF Custom rules, Advanced Rate Limiting, and Late Transform rules.
| Name | String value | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Academic research | Academic Research | Library of Congress, TurnItInBot, Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Accessibility | Accessibility | Accessible Web Bot |
| Advertising or marketing | Advertising & Marketing | Google Adsbot |
| Aggregators | Aggregator | Pinterest, Indeed Jobsbot |
| AI Assistant | AI Assistant | Perplexity-User, DuckAssistBot |
| AI Crawler | AI Crawler | Google Bard, ChatGPT bot |
| AI Search | AI Search | SearchGPT |
| Archiver | Archiver | Internet Archive, CommonCrawl |
| Feed fetcher | Feed Fetcher | RSS or Podcast feed updaters |
| Monitoring or analytics | Monitoring & Analytics | Uptime Monitors |
| Page preview | Page Preview | Facebook, Slack, Twitter, or Discord Link Preview tools |
| Search engine crawler | Search Engine Crawler | Googlebot, Bingbot, Yandexbot, Baidubot |
| Search engine optimization | Search Engine Optimization | Google Lighthouse, GT Metrix, Pingdom, AddThis |
| Security | Security | Vulnerability Scanners, SSL Domain Control Validation (DCV) Check Tools |
| Social media marketing | Social Media Marketing | Brandwatch |
| Webhooks | Webhooks | Payment processors, WordPress Integration tools |
| Other | Other |
Verified Bot Categories is available on all plans.
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