Verified Bots Directory

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Cookiebot Scanner

Verifiable

Cookiebot's cookie-consent compliance scanner. It crawls the domains its customers have registered, on a roughly monthly schedule, to detect the cookies and tracking technologies in use and generate a cookie declaration. Cookiebot documents that scans run only from a fixed pool of addresses.

Operated by Cookiebot (Usercentrics) · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexCookiebot/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Cookiebot/1.0; +http://cookiebot.com/) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36

How to verify

Documented static ranges: 20.223.9.138/32, 34.107.102.47/32, 34.141.10.24/32, 34.159.86.126/32, 34.159.168.195/32, 34.159.247.222/32, 35.198.78.207/32, 35.198.137.6/32, 35.198.160.49/32, 35.246.143.2/32, 35.246.191.14/32

IP ranges (11)

Refreshed daily from the operator's feed. Also available as /data/ips/cookiebot-scanner.ips and /data/bots/cookiebot-scanner.json.

20.223.9.138/32
34.107.102.47/32
34.141.10.24/32
34.159.168.195/32
34.159.247.222/32
34.159.86.126/32
35.198.137.6/32
35.198.160.49/32
35.198.78.207/32
35.246.143.2/32
35.246.191.14/32

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Service traffic you configured — robots.txt does not apply

  • 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.