Overview
Bravebot is retained as an observed detection label associated with Brave Search crawling.
Brave’s current first-party crawler documentation states that the Brave Search crawler does not advertise a differentiated user agent. Accordingly, a request containing Bravebot should not be treated as a current operator-verified Brave identity based on the User-Agent alone.
Brave states that pages not crawlable by Googlebot will not be crawled by Brave Search. Apply site crawl policy using current first-party guidance rather than relying on a Bravebot-specific robots rule.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Bravebot - HTTP Agent Examples
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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 - Robots Token
- Bravebot
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Do not authenticate Brave Search crawling from a `Bravebot` User-Agent alone. Follow Brave’s current first-party crawler guidance and corroborate traffic independently.
Classification
- Type
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Brave Software, Inc.
- Purpose
- Indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Bravebot is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Detection Notes
- Brave currently states that its Search crawler does not advertise a differentiated User-Agent. Retain `Bravebot` only as an observed label unless stronger current evidence is available.
- Respects robots.txt
- Depends
- Spoofing Risk
- High if the `Bravebot` string is trusted by itself; current first-party documentation does not establish it as a differentiated crawler identity.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# Brave states its crawler does not advertise a differentiated User-Agent. Manage crawlability using current Brave guidance rather than a Bravebot-specific rule.
Relationships
- Operator
- Brave Software, Inc. Checked 2026-08-07
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.