Stripebot

Verifiable

Stripe's automated web crawler. Collects data from Stripe users' websites so Stripe can provide its services and comply with financial regulations. Distinct from Stripe's webhook delivery traffic.

Operated by Stripe · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

regexStripebot/\d
observedMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 (Stripebot/1.0; +https://docs.stripe.com/stripebot-crawler)

How to verify

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

dig -x <client-ip> +short   # expect a hostname matching *.crawl.stripe.com

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.crawl.stripe.com

Good Bot Practices scorecard

Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
Verifiable
Verifiable
Respects robots.txt
Honors robots.txt (token: Stripebot)
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.