Verified Bots Directory

Directory / Webhooks

PayPal IPN

Verifiable

PayPal's Instant Payment Notification service. Not a crawler; POSTs payment-event notifications to merchant listener endpoints from a documented, static set of server CIDR ranges (shared with other PayPal server traffic).

Operated by PayPal · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexPayPal IPN
  • observedPayPal IPN (https://www.paypal.com/ipn)

How to verify

Documented static ranges: 64.4.240.0/21, 64.4.248.0/22, 66.211.168.0/22, 91.243.72.0/23, 173.0.80.0/20, 185.177.52.0/22, 192.160.215.0/24, 198.54.216.0/23

IP ranges (8)

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

173.0.80.0/20
185.177.52.0/22
192.160.215.0/24
198.54.216.0/23
64.4.240.0/21
64.4.248.0/22
66.211.168.0/22
91.243.72.0/23

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.