Allow Platebreaker Bot on Your Website

Platebreaker indexes recipe metadata (JSON-LD) to help users discover recipes by nutritional content. We never reproduce your full content — users are always directed to your original recipe page. If our bot is being blocked by your firewall, the instructions below will help you allow it through.

Bot Identification

User-Agent Platebreaker/1.0 (+https://www.platebreaker.com/bot) IP Address 18.223.218.0 Reverse DNS indexer-1.bot.platebreaker.com IP List (JSON) www.platebreaker.com/indexerips.json Verification Web Bot Auth (HTTP Message Signatures)

Firewall Instructions

Select your firewall provider below for step-by-step allowlisting instructions.

Cloudflare

Platebreaker is a Cloudflare Verified Bot. If you use Cloudflare's default Bot Management settings, our requests are automatically allowed — no action is needed.

If you have custom rules blocking aggregators or verified bots, you can add an exception:

Option 1: Verified Bot Exception

Add this expression to your custom rules to allow Platebreaker through:

(cf.bot_management.verified_bot and http.user_agent contains "Platebreaker") → Allow

Option 2: IP Access Rule

  1. Go to Security → WAF → Tools
  2. Create an IP Access Rule: Allow 18.223.218.0

Option 3: WAF Custom Rule

  1. Go to Security → WAF → Custom Rules
  2. Create a rule: Skip all remaining rules when IP equals 18.223.218.0
Wordfence (WordPress)

Wordfence requires IP-based allowlisting (User-Agent allowlisting is not supported for security reasons).

  1. Go to Wordfence → Firewall → All Firewall Options
  2. Find "Whitelisted IP addresses that bypass all rules"
  3. Add on a new line: 18.223.218.0
  4. Click Save Changes

Platebreaker respects Wordfence rate limits (well under 120 req/min) and will not trigger brute-force protections during normal operation.

Sucuri

Sucuri may automatically recognize Platebreaker via Forward-Confirmed Reverse DNS (FCrDNS). If you are still seeing blocks:

  1. Go to your Sucuri WAF Dashboard → Access Control
  2. Under "Whitelist IP Address", add: 18.223.218.0
  3. Click Save
AWS WAF

AWS WAF supports Web Bot Auth natively. If you have Bot Control enabled, Platebreaker's signed requests are automatically allowed as a verified bot.

If you need to add a manual exception:

  1. Go to AWS WAF Console → IP Sets
  2. Create an IP Set containing 18.223.218.0/32
  3. In your Web ACL, add a rule to Allow traffic matching that IP Set
  4. Set the rule priority above (lower number than) your Block rules
Fastly

Platebreaker is registered in Fastly's Known Bots list, so no action is needed with default settings.

If you have custom rules that block known bots, you can add a manual exception with a VCL snippet:

if (client.ip == "18.223.218.0") { set req.http.X-Bot-Verified = "true"; }

Or use an IP-based allowlist in your Fastly service configuration.

Other Firewalls

For any firewall or WAF not listed above:

  1. Add 18.223.218.0 to your IP allowlist
  2. Or add a User-Agent exception for Platebreaker

The full list of our crawler IPs is published at indexerips.json.

Verify a Request is from Platebreaker

You can confirm a request is genuinely from Platebreaker using any of these methods:

  1. Reverse DNS: Run host 18.223.218.0 — it should resolve to indexer-1.bot.platebreaker.com. Then verify the forward record: host indexer-1.bot.platebreaker.com should resolve back to the same IP.
  2. IP Range Check: Compare the source IP against our published list at indexerips.json.
  3. Web Bot Auth: Verify the Signature and Signature-Input headers against our public key at .well-known/http-message-signatures-directory.

Prefer to Block Indexing?

Platebreaker fully respects robots.txt directives. If you prefer to block our bot from indexing your site, add the following to your robots.txt:

User-agent: Platebreaker Disallow: /

You can also allow indexing of specific paths only:

User-agent: Platebreaker Disallow: / Allow: /recipes/

Need Help?

If you are having issues with Platebreaker's bot or need assistance with allowlisting, contact us at creators@platebreaker.com.