Cloudflare Gives Bot Operators More Control Over BotBase Listings

Cloudflare has launched BotBase for Operators, a dashboard update designed to make submitting and maintaining bots less of a black box. The company announced the changes in its blog, following the recent addition of a searchable bot directory and Business Insights tools for website owners.

The new workspace is available to all Cloudflare customers under Protect & Connect → Application Security → BotBase. It combines three functions: browsing the existing directory, submitting a bot, and reviewing submission history.

Clearer reviews and easier maintenance

Operators can now see whether a submission is waiting for review, accepted, or rejected. Rejected entries include an explanation and suggested next steps, while accepted entries show any classification changes made during review. Previously, operators often had to contact support to check a submission’s progress.

The update also allows operators to edit an existing submission when details change, such as an IP-list endpoint or a move to Web Bot Auth. Pending submissions can be canceled, and a “My bots” filter helps account holders find their own entries. Keeping this information accurate matters because it contributes to a bot’s Verified status, although individual site owners still decide what traffic to permit.

More detail about AI behavior

Cloudflare’s revised intake form asks operators to describe what a bot does, how it uses retrieved content, and who runs it. The form supports multiple behaviors, including search indexing, user-directed agents, data collection, model training, and SEO tooling. Content use is aligned with the Content Signals model, helping operators state whether their systems search, reference, or train on site content.

For developers building crawlers and AI agents, the change offers a clearer path to identification and gives site owners more context when deciding which automated traffic to trust.

Source: CloudFlare