Block Bots in Cloudflare

This article covers how to enable bot protection in Cloudflare to block abusive access attempts to your website.

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IMPORTANT: This guide requires you have Cloudflare enabled on your site.

Enable Bot Fight Mode

1. Log in to your Cloudflare dashboard, and select your account and domain.
2. Click on Security > Settings.
   NOTE: If prompted, choose the new Cloudflare Dashboard.
3. Under Bot fight mode Switch the toggle on. 
   

Block a Bot by User Agent

1. Log in to your Cloudflare dashboard, and select your account and domain.
2. Click on Security > Security Settings.
   NOTE: If prompted, choose the new Cloudflare Dashboard.
3. Under User agent blocking, Click Create user agent blocking custom rule.
4. Under Value, Replace the prefilled bot User Agent with the User Agent you want to block.
   
5. Click Deploy