Analyze crawler and bot traffic patterns for your site using the Cloudflare Radar API's verified bots endpoints

domain: developers.cloudflare.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Call the Radar API's verified-bots endpoints to retrieve aggregated top verified bots by HTTP request volume, with owner and category attribution
  2. Filter by bot behavior classification (Search, Agent, Training, etc.) to separate search-indexing crawlers from AI-training crawlers in the aggregate view
  3. Cross-reference bot names against Cloudflare's Radar Bots Directory to confirm which crawlers are formally verified versus merely self-declared via user-agent
  4. Use the AI-bots-specific summary/timeseries endpoints to track AI crawler request volume trends over time
  5. Combine Radar's network-wide aggregate data with your own server-log analysis to see whether your site's bot mix matches broader trends

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