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. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Bravebot visits your website.
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| Example 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 |
| Operated By | Brave |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Customer request or automated indexing |
| Used for AI Model Training | Possibly |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Possibly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is Bravebot Visiting My Website?
One of Brave's customers may have requested data from your site, or your pages may be part of Bravebot's standing index. A single fetch can support multiple downstream applications.
Should I Block Bravebot?
It depends on which uses you want to support. Bravebot may supply your content to enterprises, including AI companies, or use it in consumer-facing products. Those uses can include AI training, search, and retrieval. Allowing it may expand your visibility across those products and services, while blocking it limits that reach without affecting traditional search rankings. For context, 8% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Bravebot.
How Do I Block Bravebot Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Bravebot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI data providers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Bravebot # https://knownagents.com/agents/bravebot
Disallow: /Insights for Bravebot
As of October 31, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Compliance
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Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Bravebot?
Bravebot supports several kinds of automated activity, so its traffic pattern depends on the task. It may perform broad crawls to collect content or build an index, make targeted requests for specific pages, or shift between these behaviors as demand changes.
Does Bravebot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Bravebot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Bravebot respects it.
Is Bravebot Used for AI Model Training?
Possibly. Bravebot supplies data to other organizations, and its customers may use that data for AI training, search, retrieval, or other purposes.
Does Blocking Bravebot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Possibly. Blocking Bravebot can reduce your visibility in downstream AI products that depend on its data, including search or retrieval products operated by its customers.
Does Bravebot Access Private Content?
No special access. Bravebot can reach public pages, and some providers use proxy networks that can bypass rate limits or geographic restrictions. Protect sensitive content with authentication rather than relying on those softer barriers.
How Can I Verify a Request From Bravebot?
Agent Analytics tracks Bravebot visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Bravebot". Traffic may range from long crawl sequences across your site to isolated requests for specific pages, depending on whether it is collecting, indexing, or fetching content on demand. Because Bravebot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.