Cloudflare: Allow Zipchat to crawl your webiste

Fix 403 forbidden errors for Cloudflare sites

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

1. On the left menu, find Security / Security rules

   1. After opening "Security rules" click "Create rule" > "Custom rules"

Then add the following info in the custom rule

1. Rule name: Allow Zipchat crawler ( or something else )

2. When incoming requests match...

   1. Field: User Agent

   2. Operator: equals

   3. Value: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) compatible; ZipchatBot/1.0; +https://zipchat.ai/bot

3. Then take action: Skip

4. WAF components to skip

   1. Click all checkboxes

5. Place at:

   1. Select order: First

6. Click "Deploy"

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