Search engines
Bravebot
Bravemedium confidence
Brave Search's crawler, which discovers and indexes pages for Brave's independent search index (also sold via the Brave Search API and used for Brave's AI answers); partly informed by opt-in Web Discovery Project data from Brave browser users.
Dossier
- Operator
- Brave
- Documentation
- search.brave.com
- robots.txt token
- None documented
- Feeds
- search index
- Follows robots.txt
- Partly, per its documentationBrave's docs say the crawler does not advertise a distinct user agent and will not crawl what Googlebot cannot crawl; robots.txt is not used to prevent indexing (use noindex). Third-party directories list a 'Bravebot' token/UA not confirmed by Brave's page.
- How to verify
- No published method
- Names in our logs
bravebot- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 4
- Days active
- 2 / 93
- First seen
- 25 Sept 2026
- Last seen
- 21 Oct 2026
Returningother_bot
Identity check claimed vs verified
- No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- search.brave.comsearch.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler
- knownagents.comknownagents.com/agents/bravebot