About this bot
Bravebot is associated with Unknown and used for unknown observed crawling.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is Bravebot. Representative HTTP request identity: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Bravebot/1.0; +https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Unverified with Low confidence. Identity type: observed.
robots.txt behavior is currently unconfirmed.
Verification: Treat `Bravebot` as an unauthenticated observed token. Current Brave Search crawling does not advertise a differentiated crawler User-Agent, so this token cannot by itself establish Brave origin.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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BravebotMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Bravebot/1.0; +https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
Details
- Kind
- Observed agent
- Family
- Brave Software, Inc.
- Purpose
- Unknown observed crawling
- Common Use
- observed automated web access under the `Bravebot` token
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `Bravebot` as an unauthenticated observed token. Current Brave Search crawling does not advertise a differentiated crawler User-Agent, so this token cannot by itself establish Brave origin.
- Detection Notes
- A literal `Bravebot` match should not be equated with authenticated Brave Search crawler traffic.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Use server-side controls if restriction is required.