# Bravebot

> Brave · search. Crawls to build the independent Brave Search index, which also grounds Brave's AI answers.

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- **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)
- **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)
- **asn:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **reverse_dns_suffix:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **supports_web_bot_auth:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **signature_agent_domain:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **jwks_url:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **verification_methods:** user-agent-string
- **crawl_traffic_share:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **targeted_content_type:** HTML, text
- **documentation_url:** https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler
- **first_seen_date:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **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)
- **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"}