Whitelist a User Agent in Cloudflare

This article covers how to whitelist a User Agent in Cloudflare to bypass any firewall protection or rules.

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

Whitelist User Agent

1. Log in to your Cloudflare dashboard, and select your account and domain.
2. Click on Security > Security Rules.
   NOTE: If prompted, choose the new Cloudflare Dashboard.
3. Click Create Rule > Custom Rules.
4. Fill out the form with the required information.
   
   1. Rule Name: Whitelist User Agent.
   2. Field: User Agent.
   3. Operator: Equals.
   4. Value: The User Agent you want to whitelist.
      TIP: To whitelist GoogleBot Desktop, you would paste in Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
   5. Choose Action: Skip.
   6. WAF Components to Skip: Select all checkboxes.
5. Click Deploy.