Brightbot
Bright Data's AI-ready data collector
About this crawler
Brightbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Brightbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-crawler. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Brightbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.33%
Technical details
- Name
- Brightbot
- Pattern
Brightbot- Tags
- ai-crawler
- Reference
- https://brightdata.com/brightbot
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Brightbot 1.0
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Brightbot:
User-agent: Brightbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Brightbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Brightbot") {
return 403;
}
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