AI searchBlocking it costs you visibility
Bravebot
Brave Search sells its index to AI products, so one crawl reaches several assistants.
- robots.txt token
Bravebot- Operator
- Brave ↗
- Powers
- Brave Search · Brave Leo · Brave Search API
- Honours robots.txt
- Yes, documented
Allow it
User-agent: Bravebot
Allow: /Block it
User-agent: Bravebot
Disallow: /Need the whole file, with every crawler and your private paths — and the llms.txt to go with it? The generator writes them. AI config generator →
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Bravebot/1.0; +https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler) Crawlable/1.0; +https://crawlable.fr/probeThis is the string we send when probing. The Crawlable suffix identifies us in your logs.
Check your own site
robots.txt is only half the answer: your CDN can refuse Bravebot before it ever reads the file. A scan checks both.
Free, no account, about 5 seconds.