--- title: "Bravebot Simulator & Tester: Crawl Any URL as Brave" url: https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator/bravebot-simulator description: "Simulate a Bravebot visit to any URL on your website. Crawl the page and inspect the HTML, status code, and headers Brave Search gets. Free." lang: en --- All Crawler Simulators (https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator) Image: Bravebot (https://encited.com/crawler-logos/bravebot.svg) Crawler simulator # Bravebot Simulator & Tester Last updated September 29, 2026 Simulate a Bravebot visit to any URL on your website. Crawl the page and inspect the HTML Brave Search and its AI answers get. SIMULATE ## Simulate a Bravebot visit Enter any URL on your website to crawl it as Bravebot and inspect the HTML it gets. How it works ## How to use the Bravebot simulator 1. Step 1 ### Enter a URL Paste the full URL of any page on your website, such as a product page, a blog post, or the home page. 2. Step 2 ### Select the Bravebot user agent The tester sends the request with the Bravebot user-agent string, so your server answers the way it answers a real Bravebot visit. 3. Step 3 ### Run the crawl The simulator requests the page as Bravebot and follows redirects, the same way the crawler does. 4. Step 4 ### Inspect the HTML Check the status code, redirects, response headers, raw HTML, word count, and Open Graph tags Bravebot gets. If your main content is missing from the HTML, Bravebot cannot read it. Overview ## What is Bravebot? Bravebot is the web crawler for Brave Search, a privacy-focused search engine that builds its own independent search index. Unlike some competitors, Brave Search doesn't rely on Google or Bing's index. Brave also offers AI-powered features like 'Answer with AI' that use crawled content to generate responses. Why allow it ## Why allow Bravebot? Rank in Brave Search results Reach Brave browser's growing user base Appear in Brave's 'Answer with AI' feature Diversify beyond Google and Bing Reach privacy-conscious users Robots.txt ## Bravebot robots.txt configuration Control how Bravebot crawls your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain, then run the simulator again on the same URL to confirm the change. ### Allow Bravebot \# Allow Brave Search crawler User-agent: Bravebot Allow: / User-agent: Brave-Search Allow: / ### Block Bravebot \# Block Brave Search crawler User-agent: Bravebot Disallow: / User-agent: Brave-Search Disallow: / **User-Agent String:** `Bravebot/1.0` ## Bravebot simulator FAQ ### How do I simulate a Bravebot visit to my website? ### What makes Brave Search different? ### How do I rank in Brave Search? ### Does Bravebot execute JavaScript? ### Is Brave Search traffic growing? ### How does Brave's AI feature work? ## Related Crawler Simulators DuckDuckBot Simulator https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator/duckduckbot-simulator Googlebot Simulator https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator/googlebot-simulator Bingbot Simulator https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator/bingbot-simulator YouBot Simulator https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator/youbot-simulator ## More Free SEO Tools Continue auditing your site with these companion tools. 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Get Indexed by ChatGPT, Perplexity & AI Search: https://encited.com/blog/how-to-get-pages-indexed-by-openai-chatgpt Is Lovable SEO Friendly? A Practical Guide: https://encited.com/blog/is-lovable-seo-friendly What Is Pre-rendering for SPAs?: https://encited.com/docs/pre-rendering/what-pre-rendering-gets-you Fix Lovable SEO: The Complete 2026 Guide: https://encited.com/blog/fix-lovable-seo Get started ## Make your site crawlable JavaScript sites often have indexing issues. Encited pre-renders your SPA into crawler-friendly HTML so Bravebot and other bots can read your content. All crawlers: https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator Image: Avatar (https://replymaven.com/api/uploads/Su6Q0nK63iZW0ZFJBRNWpmRuppVDLuab/98df5262-f992-45fa-a750-00a6c919baf9.png) How can we help? Get instant answers to your questions or leave a message for an engineer will reach out Ask AI about Encited See our docs (https://lovablehtml.com/docs) Contact support Leave a message We'll get back to you soon Ask AI about Encited Product questions, troubleshooting and Thinking Image: Preview Drop an image to attach Powered by ReplyMaven (https://replymaven.com/) ## Structured data ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "FAQPage", "mainEntity": [ { "@type": "Question", "name": "How do I simulate a Bravebot visit to my website?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Enter any URL from your website in the tester above and run the crawl. The simulator requests the page with the Bravebot user-agent string and shows the status code, response headers, and raw HTML it gets. 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