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Whitelisting the Cookiebot scanners: What IP addresses do you scan from, what is your user agent string?

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IP Addresses

Cookiebot utilizes a range of different IPs for the different scans we perform. For premium subscription domains, it is an option to have scanning done from a pool of static IP addresses:

  • 13.74.44.241
  • 40.91.211.73
  • 52.232.29.198
  • 23.100.63.22
  • 40.118.23.197

Please contact Cookiebot support in order to have static IP scanning enabled for a domain.

These are subject to change in the near future and can not be considered "fixed" IPs.

 

User agent string

To whitelist the Cookiebot scanners or to help filter out Cookiebot from traffic analysis we recommend that you instead do this based on how our scanners identify through their user agent string. 

The Cookiebot scanner user agent will look like this (where X is a numeric value of one or more digits):

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Cookiebot/1.0; +http://cookiebot.com/) Chrome/X.X.X.X Safari/537.36

We suggest simply looking for "Cookiebot" in the string and make your desired configurations based on this.

See also: I see (unusual) spikes in the traffic on my website - is it caused by your scanner?

 

 

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Comments

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  • Mike

    Are these IPs up to date? I blocked them on Google Analytics via a filter but I still see a spike in traffic from your scan.

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  • Nicolas Bykoff

    Is it possible to have the ports please?
    My developer is asking but the support keeps sending me to this page !

    Thank you.

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  • Mitch Abrigo

    Is this IP dynamic? Please confirm because we're going to zero-rate them.

     

    Thanks.

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  • Jan

    even though this seems to be updated one month ago, I'm pretty sure that the list of ips is not up to date

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  • Nathan Raupach

    We are seeing scans from Cookiebot from these additional IP addresses: 

    20.54.36.46

    51.104.152.219

    52.236.25.1

    20.191.53.158

    20.54.36.238

     

    Additionally, your scanners should use this user agent:

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Cookiebot/1.0; +http://cookiebot.com/) Chrome/X.X.X.X Safari/537.36

     

    But we are seeing:

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Cookiebot/1.0; +http://cookiebot.com/) Chrome/86.0.4240.183 Safari/537.36

     

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  • Jan

    I've just extracted cookiebots useragent as it scanned our websites and it is

    'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36'

    nothing like 'cookiebot' in it - which makes it hard to filter it out of our analytics data.
    So how can I identify the bot?

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  • adam

    we have found 2 new:

    20.67.150.113, 20.82.227.158

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