What is Bravebot?
Bravebot is a web crawler by Brave that indexes pages for Brave Search, providing search data and AI-optimized context to power chatbots, agents, and RAG pipelines. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
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Expected Behavior
Bravebot crawls systematically and at volume, because it feeds an index that many AI customers query. Expect recurring visits that cover large parts of your site rather than single pages. Bursts often trace back to a customer request on its end rather than anything on yours.
Overview
| Operated By | Brave |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 7, 2026 |
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
As of July 7, 2026, 1% of top websites block Bravebot in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Data Provider Traffic
As of July 7, 2026, 0.3% of all web traffic came from AI data providers.
Top Visited Website Categories
This data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Bravebot's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Bravebot/1.0; +https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 |
Access other known user agents and IP addresses using the Enterprise API.
How To Block Bravebot
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Bravebot from accessing your entire website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Bravebot # https://knownagents.com/agents/bravebot
Disallow: /Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Bravebot?
Decide how you feel about redistribution. A single crawl from Bravebot can supply your content to many AI companies for training, search, and retrieval, so allowing it spreads your content across products you have no relationship with. Blocking it costs some AI visibility and nothing in traditional search. For comparison, 1% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for Bravebot.
Does Bravebot Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. Bravebot is expected to honor robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms Bravebot actually honors it.
Does Bravebot Access Private Content?
Bravebot targets public pages, but at industrial scale. Some providers route requests through large proxy networks that sidestep rate limits and geographic blocks. Content you want kept out of AI systems is safer behind real authentication than behind soft barriers.
Why Is Bravebot Visiting My Website?
One of Brave's customers requested data your site contains, or your pages are part of Bravebot's standing index. A single fetch can end up serving many downstream AI applications.
How Can I Tell if Bravebot Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Bravebot visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "Bravebot". Look for systematic crawling that returns on a schedule. Keep in mind that Bravebot doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.