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Cloudflare BotBase

BotBase is Cloudflare's searchable database of all tracked bots and agents, launched as a feature of Enterprise Bot Management in July 2026. It provides a comprehensive directory view of the entire Cloudflare bots catalog with per-bot behavioral classification, content-use levels, and verification status.

Architecture

BotBase represents each bot as an entity annotated with:

  • One or more behaviors from the 10-category taxonomy: Search, Agent, Training, Transact, Data Collection, Security Testing, SEO, Ads Verification, Social/Link Preview, Feed Fetching, Monitoring & Operations.
  • Content-use level: immediate, reference, or full — describing what the bot retains and reshares.
  • Verified status: whether the operator has demonstrated honest self-representation and non-abusive behavior.
  • Detection ID: a copyable identifier for use in customer Security rules.

Key Properties

  • Dynamic dashboard view — first time Cloudflare exposes the full bot directory live on the dashboard.
  • Customers can filter by specific bot, copy detection IDs for WAF rules.
  • Classification feeds into the new default enforcement logic: if a customer blocks "Training," all bots classified with Training behavior are blocked.
  • Bots that reproduce content in full cannot achieve Verified status.
  • Future expansion planned as a direct control center for managing automated traffic per-site.

Relationship to Bot Management

BotBase is the data plane for bot identity and classification; systems/cloudflare-bot-management is the enforcement plane that acts on the classifications. The new three-toggle AI traffic controls (Search/Agent/Training) query BotBase's behavioral classification to determine allow/block decisions.

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