Bravebot
Brave · search. Crawls to build the independent Brave Search index, which also grounds Brave's AI answers.
- name
- Bravebot
- operator
- Brave
- purpose
- search
- ua_substring
- Bravebot
- robots_token
- Bravebot
- respects_robots
- yes
- verify
- Brave documents its crawler and honors robots.txt; match the UA and a Brave-owned IP (see documentation_url).
- notes
- Crawls to build the independent Brave Search index, which also grounds Brave's AI answers.
- canonical_name
- Bravebot
- user_agent_token
- Bravebot
- ua_full
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler
- bot_type
- search-index
- bot_type_extension
- —
- opt_out_mechanism
- robots.txt disallow (User-agent: Bravebot)
- published_ip_range_url
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler
- asn
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler
- reverse_dns_suffix
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler
- supports_web_bot_auth
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler
- signature_agent_domain
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler
- jwks_url
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler
- verification_methods
user-agent-string- crawl_traffic_share
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
- targeted_content_type
- HTML, text
- documentation_url
- https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler
- first_seen_date
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler
- last_verified_date
- 2026-07-06
- block_vs_allow_recommendation
- conditional — feeds an independent search index and AI answers; allow to be discoverable in Brave.
- citation_referral_value
- medium (Brave Search results and AI answers)
- cloudflare_verified_category
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
- status
- active
- triples
["Bravebot","operated_by","Brave"]["Bravebot","has_bot_type","search-index"]["Bravebot","verified_via","user-agent-string"]- attribute_sources
{"claims":["user_agent_token","robots_token"],"source":"https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt","last_verified":"2026-07-06"}{"claims":["operator","purpose","documentation_url","respects_robots"],"source":"https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler","last_verified":"2026-07-06"}
last verified · by Özden Erdinc