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What is Cookiebot?

Direct Answer: Cookiebot scans websites for cookies and trackers, operated by Cybot A/S for security purposes.

Operator: Cybot A/S Type: Security Scanner Purpose: Cookie and tracker scanning for security and compliance

Cookiebot is a security bot operated by Cybot A/S. It scans websites for cookies and trackers to gather and provide information on a cookie banner. The bot uses a specific user-agent string to identify itself.

User-Agent Identification

The following user-agent strings identify Cookiebot in your live traffic data:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Cookiebot/1.0; +http://cookiebot.com/) Chrome/101.0.4951.54 Safari/537.36

robots.txt Rules for Cookiebot

Respects robots.txt: No

This bot does not commit to following robots.txt

Cookiebot does not officially follow robots.txt directives. The only reliable way to control access is through server-side blocking (IP filtering, user-agent rules in your web server config) combined with log monitoring to verify effectiveness.

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Crawl Behavior

Frequency:Not Documented

Request Pattern:Not Documented

Crawl Activity Index

Relative crawl activity for Cookiebot over the past 28 days. Higher values indicate increased crawling intensity compared to the period baseline.

View recent activity data (last 7 days)
Date Activity Index
May 25, 2026 63.1
May 26, 2026 76.0
May 27, 2026 57.1
May 28, 2026 63.6
May 29, 2026 74.7
May 30, 2026 67.5
May 31, 2026 51.7

Source: Cloudflare Radar

Why track Cookiebot traffic?

Identify and classify unknown crawler activity. Cookiebot may appear in your live traffic data with varying frequency. Tracking its behavior helps you decide whether to allow, throttle, or block it based on actual data.

Protect your crawl budget. Every bot request consumes server resources. Understanding what Cookiebot crawls helps you prioritize the crawlers that matter.

Log Verification

To verify Cookiebot traffic in your live traffic data:

  1. Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
  2. Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by Cybot A/S)
  3. Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
  4. Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available

Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.

Undocumented Information

The following information is not officially documented for Cookiebot:

  • crawl frequency
  • IP verification
  • JavaScript rendering
  • user-agent variations

Official Documentation

View Official Cookiebot Documentation →

Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.