AI search · Brave
Bravebot
Builds the Brave Search index, which also feeds Brave's Leo assistant and its Search API for AI grounding.
- Operator
- Brave
- Purpose
- AI search indexers
- Feeds
- Brave Leo
- robots.txt token
Bravebot- Honours robots.txt
- Honours robots.txt
- Documentation
- search.brave.com
What it looks like in server logs
A representative user-agent string. Version numbers change; the Bravebot token does not. Paste your own log line into the user-agent checker to confirm a match.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Bravebot/1.0)How to block Bravebot
Add this to the robots.txt at the root of your domain. Robots.txt is advisory: it works only on crawlers that choose to read it. This one is honours robots.txt according to its operator.
User-agent: Bravebot
Disallow: /
To block every ai search indexer at once, or to block training while keeping AI search citations, use the robots.txt generator.
How to allow Bravebot while blocking others
A more specific User-agent group wins over a wildcard. Place this above any User-agent: * block that disallows paths, and Bravebot keeps full access.
User-agent: Bravebot
Allow: /
How to verify a genuine hit
The user-agent string is self-asserted: anyone can send it from a laptop, and scrapers routinely impersonate well-known crawlers to slip past filters aimed at unknown ones.
No published ranges.