Cloudflare Always Online

Listed only

Cloudflare's Always Online crawler, which fetches pages from sites that have the feature enabled so a cached copy can be served to visitors when the origin server is unreachable. Cloudflare's crawler reference documents the CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline user agent for this product.

Operated by Cloudflare · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

regexCloudFlare-AlwaysOnline/[\d.]+
observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline/1.0; +http://www.cloudflare.com/always-online)
observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline/1.0; +https://www.cloudflare.com/always-online) AppleWebKit/534.34

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
Verifiable
Operator publishes no verification path
Respects robots.txt
Does not honor robots.txt
Behaves
Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset
Reachable operator
Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.