About this bot
Stripebot is an automated identity associated with Stripe and used for Collects data from Stripe users’ websites to provide Stripe services and support financial-regulation compliance.
The primary recorded identity signal is Stripebot. Representative HTTP identity: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux {version}) AppleWebKit/{version} (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/{version} Safari/{version} (Stripebot/{version}; +https://docs.stripe.com/stripebot-crawler).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official-documented.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under Stripebot.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling: no.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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StripebotMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux {version}) AppleWebKit/{version} (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/{version} Safari/{version} (Stripebot/{version}; +https://docs.stripe.com/stripebot-crawler)
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Stripe
- Purpose
- Service and compliance data collection
- Common Use
- Collects data from Stripe users’ websites to provide Stripe services and support financial-regulation compliance.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `Stripebot` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate it with independent network, DNS, cryptographic, or request-context signals when stronger authentication is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `Stripebot` User-Agent token. A User-Agent match identifies a claim, not authenticated origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: Stripebot Disallow: /- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Stripebot" bot_match- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Stripebot") { set $bot_match 1; }