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How to let LinkSweep scan your Cloudflare-protected site

Your site is behind Cloudflare, which is blocking our scanner. Cloudflare 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?

Scroll to the bottom — there's a ready-to-send message you can forward to whoever runs your website.

What to tell Cloudflare

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.

Step-by-step in the Cloudflare dashboard

  1. Log in to dash.cloudflare.com and pick the site (zone) you want to scan.
  2. Add an IP allow rule:
    1. Left sidebar → Security → WAF → Tools.
    2. Under IP Access Rules, add a new rule.
    3. IP: 185.31.243.206
    4. Action: Allow
    5. Zone: This website (not your whole account)
    6. Notes: "LinkSweep monitoring"
    7. Click Add. Changes are live immediately — no activation step.
  3. If you use Bot Fight Mode or Super Bot Fight Mode: go to Security → Bots. Bot Fight Mode ignores IP Access rules for some bots, so also:
    1. Go to Security → WAF → Custom rules.
    2. Create a rule: When incoming requests match → (ip.src eq 185.31.243.206) → Then take action: Skip → tick All remaining custom rules, Managed rules, Zone Lockdown, and Super Bot Fight Mode.
    3. Save and deploy.
  4. If you have any Rate-Limiting rules: add the same IP to their bypass list so we don't get throttled.

After you've allowlisted us

  1. Cloudflare changes are usually live in under a minute.
  2. In LinkSweep, open the site and click Scan Now.
  3. The scan should complete successfully. If it still fails, contact support.

Message to forward to your web team

Copy and paste this into an email.

Hi, We're using LinkSweep (https://linksweep.eu) to monitor our website's health. Their crawler is being blocked by Cloudflare. Please add them to our Cloudflare allowlist: - IP: 185.31.243.206 - User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; LinkSweep/1.0; +https://linksweep.eu/bot) Steps (5 min): 1. Cloudflare dashboard → our zone → Security → WAF → Tools 2. IP Access Rules → Add → IP 185.31.243.206, Action "Allow", Zone "this website" 3. If Bot Fight / Super Bot Fight Mode is on: add a Custom Rule that Skips all managed features for ip.src eq 185.31.243.206 Expected traffic: up to a few hundred requests per scheduled scan. They respect robots.txt. Full guide: https://linksweep.eu/docs/allowlist/cloudflare Please let me know once done. Thanks!
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