Operator
Shopify
Shopify runs 8 bots across 3 agent types. Each one is a separate user-agent so you can allow or block them independently.
Shop is operated by Shopify. Catalog crawler that indexes product feeds for AI-powered shopping experiences and answer engines. Allowing it is how products become discoverable inside agentic commerce.
Shop-Agent is operated by Shopify. Crawls broadly across the public web to gather content for training new model versions. Site owners can opt out via robots.txt, though enforcement varies by operator.
Shopify Partner is operated by Shopify. Single-page fetch triggered by a user action, link previews, social unfurlers, RSS readers. Volume tracks shares and clicks rather than crawl schedules.
Shopify-Captain-Hook is operated by Shopify. Single-page fetch triggered by a user action, link previews, social unfurlers, RSS readers. Volume tracks shares and clicks rather than crawl schedules.
Shopify-Commerce-Agent is operated by Shopify. Catalog crawler that indexes product feeds for AI-powered shopping experiences and answer engines. Allowing it is how products become discoverable inside agentic commerce.
Shopify-Storebot is operated by Shopify. Catalog crawler that indexes product feeds for AI-powered shopping experiences and answer engines. Allowing it is how products become discoverable inside agentic commerce.
Shopify-StorefrontMCP is operated by Shopify. Catalog crawler that indexes product feeds for AI-powered shopping experiences and answer engines. Allowing it is how products become discoverable inside agentic commerce.
ShopifyAI is operated by Shopify. Catalog crawler that indexes product feeds for AI-powered shopping experiences and answer engines. Allowing it is how products become discoverable inside agentic commerce.
Live data · via Cloudflare Radar
See how Shopify's bots show up in real internet traffic
Cloudflare Radar publishes a continuously-updating view of AI bot activity across the websites Cloudflare protects. You can see which user-agents drive the most requests, how that share shifts week to week, and which industries each bot crawls hardest. The data refreshes on Cloudflare's side, so the link below is always current.
Open Cloudflare Radar AI InsightsWhat you'll find there
- ·User-agent share for every tracked AI bot, including Shopify's
- ·Robots.txt and crawl-purpose breakdowns per operator
- ·Industry and content-type targets for each crawler
- ·Time-series trends going back several months