Cloudflare-AutoRAG

ai-crawler Cloudflare-AutoRAG

Cloudflare's RAG service indexer

About this crawler

Cloudflare-AutoRAG is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Cloudflare-AutoRAG in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-crawler. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Cloudflare-AutoRAG traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.26%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Cloudflare-AutoRAG
2026-05-012026-06-040.35%

Technical details

Name
Cloudflare-AutoRAG
Pattern
Cloudflare-AutoRAG
Tags
ai-crawler
Reference
https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/
Added
2026/04/26
rDNS suffixes
.cloudflare.com
Instances
1 known sample(s)

rDNS verification (FCrDNS)

Verify a request is genuinely Cloudflare-AutoRAG 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.

Sample User-Agent strings

Cloudflare-AutoRAG (https://developers.cloudflare.com/autorag; [email protected])

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Cloudflare-AutoRAG:

User-agent: Cloudflare-AutoRAG Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Cloudflare-AutoRAG [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Cloudflare-AutoRAG") { return 403; }
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