Cloudflare-Radar-Scanner
URL scanning for traffic and threat intelligence
About this crawler
Cloudflare-Radar-Scanner is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Cloudflare-Radar-Scanner in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Cloudflare-Radar-Scanner traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Cloudflare-Radar-Scanner
- Pattern
Cloudflare-Radar-Scanner- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- https://radar.cloudflare.com
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- rDNS suffixes
.cloudflare.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Cloudflare-Radar-Scanner 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.
.cloudflare.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Cloudflare-Radar-Scanner
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Cloudflare-Radar-Scanner:
User-agent: Cloudflare-Radar-Scanner
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Cloudflare-Radar-Scanner [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Cloudflare-Radar-Scanner") {
return 403;
}
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