News from 2026-08-28
Cloudflare opens BotBase for Operators
In short
28 August 2026: Cloudflare opens BotBase for Operators. Bot operators get a dashboard home for submissions under Application Security, with status (waiting, accepted, rejected with reasons), editing of existing entries, and a behaviour model to declare how a bot uses content. Cloudflare says accurate entries decide whether a bot earns and keeps Verified status. Rows affected in this site: Cloudflare.
Bot operators get a dashboard home for submissions under Application Security, with status (waiting, accepted, rejected with reasons), editing of existing entries, and a behaviour model to declare how a bot uses content. Cloudflare says accurate entries decide whether a bot earns and keeps Verified status.
Primary source blog.cloudflare.com/botbase-for-operators/, read 2026-11-04.
Where it stands in the Index
- Cloudflare
- Vendor. CDN and security network that sorts crawlers and agents by purpose (search, training, agent), verifies them by IP or Web Bot Auth signatures, and offers per-request charging for AI crawlers in private beta.
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Last reviewed 2026-11-04