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How to Enable AI Bot Blocking for Vultr CDN Push Zones

Updated on April 3, 2025

AI Bot Blocking in Vultr CDN Push Zones helps protect your content by preventing unwanted AI bots from accessing your site. This feature ensures that your bandwidth is used efficiently by real users, safeguarding your site from harmful traffic and potential abuse. By enabling AI Bot blocking, you maintain optimal performance and security for your content delivery.

Follow this guide to enable the AI Bot blocking feature for Vultr CDN Push 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 Push Zones.
  2. Click your target CDN Push 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 Push Zones endpoint and note the target Push Zone subscription's ID.

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

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

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

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

    console 
    $ vultr-cli cdn push list

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

    console 
    $ vultr-cli cdn push update <pushzone-id> --block-ai

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