What is TermlyBot?
Direct Answer: TermlyBot is a web crawler operated by Termly for detecting and categorizing website cookies.
TermlyBot is a web crawler designed to automatically detect and categorize cookies on websites. It is operated by Termly and uses specific user-agents to identify itself. The bot's primary function is to scan websites for cookie information.
User-Agent Identification
The following user-agent strings identify TermlyBot in your live traffic data:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 (compatible; TermlyBot/W.X; +http://www.termly.io/bot.html)
robots.txt Rules for TermlyBot
Respects robots.txt: No
This bot does not commit to following robots.txt
TermlyBot 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:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux X86 64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, Like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 (Compatible; TermlyBot/W.X; +Http://Www.Termly.Io/Bot.Html)
Official Documentation Quotes
"TermlyBot is a web crawler that allows you to detect and categorize the cookies on your website automatically."
Crawl Activity Index
Relative crawl activity for TermlyBot 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 |
|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2026 | 88.0 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | 82.7 |
| Mar 28, 2026 | 83.1 |
| Mar 29, 2026 | 81.8 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | 87.3 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 90.2 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | 88.8 |
Source: Cloudflare Radar
Why track TermlyBot traffic?
Distinguish monitoring traffic from real crawler activity. TermlyBot checks your site availability at regular intervals. Without proper identification, these requests can inflate your bot traffic metrics and distort crawl analysis.
Validate monitoring coverage. Track which pages TermlyBot checks and how frequently, so your monitoring setup matches your infrastructure requirements.
Log Verification
To verify TermlyBot traffic in your live traffic data:
- Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
- Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by Termly)
- Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
- 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 TermlyBot:
- crawl frequency
- IP verification
- JavaScript rendering
Official Documentation
View Official TermlyBot Documentation →
Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.