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How to let LinkSweep scan your Akamai-protected site

Your site is protected by Akamai, which is blocking our scanner. Akamai is a security service many sites use to stop bad traffic — we just need to tell it that LinkSweep is safe. This takes about 5 minutes.

Don't manage your site's security yourself?

No problem. Scroll to the bottom — there's a ready-to-send message you can forward to whoever runs your website. They'll know what to do.

What to tell Akamai

LinkSweep's IP address
185.31.243.206
LinkSweep's identifier
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; LinkSweep/1.0; +https://linksweep.eu/bot)
How much traffic
Up to a few hundred requests per scan, on whatever schedule you've set (weekly / biweekly / monthly). Almost no ongoing load.

Step-by-step in Akamai Control Center

  1. Log in to control.akamai.com.
  2. Open your site's security configuration: top menu → Security → Security Configuration → pick the config that protects your site.
  3. Find Bot Manager in the left sidebar. (If your plan has Bot Manager Premier, it's the same menu.)
  4. Add a bypass list for LinkSweep:
    1. Go to Exception List → Bypass Network Lists.
    2. Click Create New Network List.
    3. Name it LinkSweep-allow.
    4. Add the IP 185.31.243.206/32.
    5. Save.
  5. Attach it to your Bot Manager policy: in the policy rules, add an action of Allow / Bypass Bot Detection for this network list. Priority should be higher than your block rules (typically rule 1 or 2).
  6. Activate: Akamai makes you push to Staging first. Activate, wait 2-3 minutes, test. Then activate to Production. Expect another 5-10 minutes before changes are live worldwide.

After you've allowlisted us

  1. Wait 5-10 minutes after pushing the Akamai config to production.
  2. Go back to LinkSweep → open the site → click Scan Now.
  3. The scan should complete with real results. If it still fails, the Akamai change may not have propagated yet — wait another 10 minutes and try again.
  4. If it still fails after 30 minutes, contact support.

Message to forward to your web team

Copy and paste this into an email. It has everything your Akamai admin needs.

Hi, We're using LinkSweep (https://linksweep.eu) to monitor our website's health — broken links, SEO issues, accessibility problems. Their crawler is being blocked by our Akamai Bot Manager. Please add them to our Akamai allowlist: - IP: 185.31.243.206/32 - User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; LinkSweep/1.0; +https://linksweep.eu/bot) Steps (5-10 min): 1. Akamai Control Center → Security → Security Configuration → [our config] 2. Bot Manager → Exception List → Bypass Network Lists → New network list 3. Name: "LinkSweep-allow", IP: 185.31.243.206/32 4. Attach to the Bot Manager policy with action "Bypass Bot Detection" 5. Activate to Staging, then to Production (10 min to propagate) Expected traffic: up to a few hundred requests per scheduled scan. They respect robots.txt. Full guide: https://linksweep.eu/docs/allowlist/akamai Please let me know once done and I'll confirm it's working on our end. Thanks!
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