BraveBot
Privacy-focused search engine indexing crawler
About this crawler
BraveBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern BraveBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block BraveBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.33%
Technical details
- Name
- BraveBot
- Pattern
BraveBot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://search.brave.com/help/web-discovery-project
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- rDNS suffixes
.brave.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely BraveBot with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.brave.com
Sample User-Agent strings
BraveBot / Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BraveBot/1.0)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow BraveBot:
User-agent: BraveBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} BraveBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "BraveBot") {
return 403;
}
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