# Cloudflare: Allow Zipchat to crawl your webiste

Currently, Cloudflare is blocking the Zipchat crawlers by default; therefore, Zipchat can't keep itself up to date.

To use Zipchat and Cloudflare together, you need to add a custom security rule that allows Zipchat to do its job. Here's how to do it:

1. Open Cloudflare and click on your website

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2. On the left menu, find Security / Security rules
   1. After opening "Security rules" click "Create rule" > "Custom rules"

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Then add the following info in the custom rule

1. Rule name: `Allow Zipchat crawler` ( or something else )
2. When incoming requests match...&#x20;
   1. Field: `User Agent`
   2. Operator: `equals`&#x20;
   3. Value: `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) compatible; ZipchatBot/1.0; +https://zipchat.ai/bot`
3. &#x20;Then take action: `Skip`
4. WAF components to skip
   1. Click all checkboxes
5. Place at:
   1. Select order: First
6. Click "Deploy"

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This should allow the Zipchat crawler to update itself on your website.