Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control so writers can block or allow bots
and newsletter platform beehiiv Inc. today launched an integration that hands independent publishers a single toggle to decide whether artificial intelligence crawlers can reach their work. The integration bakes Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into the beehiiv dashboard.
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- SiliconANGLE UPDATED 09:00 EDT / JUNE 23 2026 AI Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control so writers can block or allow bots by Duncan Riley Cloudflare Inc.
They can open their archives to AI search engines and agents and chase the distribution that brings, or shut AI scraping off and hold their content back for licensing deals later.
- Putting the controls in the dashboard takes the code out of it.
Flip the controls on and a publisher gets a dashboard, built on Cloudflare's application programming interfaces, that names the AI crawlers knocking on the door.
- Cloudflare flipped on default AI-scraper blocking for new customers in 2025 and stood up a Pay Per Crawl marketplace where publishers can charge AI firms for access.
In January, it bought AI data marketplace startup Human Native Ltd.
- Some 135,000 publishers run newsletters, websites and podcasts on beehiiv.
It takes nothing from their subscription revenue and the audiences stay theirs.
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- #Cloudflare flipped on default AI-scraper blocking for new customers in 2025 and stood up a Pay Per Crawl marketplace where publishers can charge AI firms for access.
SiliconANGLE UPDATED 09:00 EDT / JUNE 23 2026 AI Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control so writers can block or allow bots by Duncan Riley Cloudflare Inc. and newsletter platform beehiiv Inc. today launched an integration that hands independent publishers a single toggle to decide whether artificial intelligence crawlers can reach their work.
The integration bakes Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into the beehiiv dashboard. They can open their archives to AI search engines and agents and chase the distribution that brings, or shut AI scraping off and hold their content back for licensing deals later. Beehiiv is turning the option on for its users starting today.
Behind the launch is a problem that has gotten worse fast. AI systems now eat up a large and rising share of web traffic and fending them off has meant fiddling with robots. txt files or writing firewall rules.
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