Verified Bot Categories

You can segment your verified bot traffic by its type and purpose by adding the Verified Bot Categories field cf.verified_bot_category as a filter criteria in WAF Custom rules, Advanced Rate Limiting, and Late Transform rules.

​​ Categories

• Academic research: Internet Archive, Library of Congress, TurnItInBot
• Accessibility
• Advertising or marketing: Google Adsbot
• Aggregators: Pinterest, Indeed Jobsbot
• AI Crawler: Google Bard, ChatGPT bot
• Feed fetcher: RSS or Podcast feed updaters
• Monitoring or analytics: Uptime Monitors
• Page preview: Facebook, Slack, Twitter, or Discord Link Preview tools
• Search engine crawler: Googlebot, Bingbot, Yandexbot, Baidubot
• Search engine optimization: Google Lighthouse, GT Metrix, Pingdom, AddThis
• Security: Vulnerability Scanners, SSL Domain Control Validation (DCV) Check Tools
• Webhooks: Payment processors, WordPress Integration tools
• Other

​​ Availability

Verified Bot Categories is available to all Bots customers.