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How to Enable AI Bot Blocking for Vultr CDN Pull Zones

Updated on April 3, 2025

AI Bot Blocking in Vultr CDN Pull Zones helps protect your content by preventing unwanted AI bots from accessing your site. This feature safeguards your site from harmful traffic and ensures that your bandwidth is utilized efficiently by real users only. By enabling AI Bot blocking, you can enhance security and maintain optimal performance for your content delivery.

Follow this guide to enable the AI Bot blocking feature for Vultr CDN Pull Zones on your Vultr account using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, or CLI.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI
  1. Navigate to Products, click CDN, and then click Pull Zones.
  2. Click your target CDN Pull Zone subscription to open its management page.
  3. Click Features.
  4. Select block_ai and click Update Features.

  1. Send a GET request to the List CDN Pull Zones endpoint and note the target Pull Zone subscription's ID.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/cdns/pull-zones" \
    -X GET \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a PUT request to the Update CDN Pull Zone endpoint to enable AI Bot blocking feature for your target Pull Zone subscription.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/cdns/pull-zones/{pullzone-id}" \
    -X PUT \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data '{
        "block_ai": true
    }'

  1. List all available CDN Pull Zone subscriptions and note the target Pull Zone subscription's ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli cdn pull list

  2. Enable AI Bot blocking feature for your target Pull Zone subscription.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli cdn pull update <pullzone-id> --block-ai

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