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title: Verified bot categories · Cloudflare bot solutions docs
description: You can segment your verified bot traffic by its type and purpose by adding the Verified Bot Categories field cf.verified_bot_category as a filter criteria in WAF Custom rules, Advanced Rate Limiting, and Late Transform rules.
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You can segment your verified bot traffic by its type and purpose by adding the Verified Bot Categories field `cf.verified_bot_category` as a filter criteria in [WAF Custom rules](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/custom-rules/), [Advanced Rate Limiting](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/rate-limiting-rules/), and Late Transform rules.

Note

The Verified Bot Categories field is not compatible with legacy Firewall rules.

## Categories

| Name | String value | Example |
| - | - | - |
| Academic research | `Academic Research` | Library of Congress, TurnItInBot, Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Accessibility | `Accessibility` | Accessible Web Bot |
| Advertising or marketing | `Advertising & Marketing` | Google Adsbot |
| Aggregators | `Aggregator` | Pinterest, Indeed Jobsbot |
| AI Assistant | `AI Assistant` | Perplexity-User, DuckAssistBot |
| AI Crawler | `AI Crawler` | Google Bard, ChatGPT bot |
| AI Search | `AI Search` | SearchGPT |
| Archiver | `Archiver` | Internet Archive, CommonCrawl |
| Feed fetcher | `Feed Fetcher` | RSS or Podcast feed updaters |
| Monitoring or analytics | `Monitoring & Analytics` | Uptime Monitors |
| Page preview | `Page Preview` | Facebook, Slack, Twitter, or Discord Link Preview tools |
| Search engine crawler | `Search Engine Crawler` | Googlebot, Bingbot, Yandexbot, Baidubot |
| Search engine optimization | `Search Engine Optimization` | Google Lighthouse, GT Metrix, Pingdom, AddThis |
| Security | `Security` | Vulnerability Scanners, SSL Domain Control Validation (DCV) Check Tools |
| Social media marketing | `Social Media Marketing` | Brandwatch |
| Webhooks | `Webhooks` | Payment processors, WordPress Integration tools |
| Other | `Other` | |

## Availability

Verified Bot Categories is available on all plans.
