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?
Comments
6 comments
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.
Is it possible to have the ports please?
My developer is asking but the support keeps sending me to this page !
Thank you.
Is this IP dynamic? Please confirm because we're going to zero-rate them.
Thanks.
even though this seems to be updated one month ago, I'm pretty sure that the list of ips is not up to date
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
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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