---
title: "CookieBeam Documentation"
description: "Install, configure, and operate CookieBeam with practical guides and reference material."
url: "https://cookiebeam.com/docs"
lang: "en"
---

# CookieBeam Documentation

Install, configure, and operate CookieBeam with practical guides and reference material.

CookieBeam helps your site collect and honor consent while keeping your deployment workflow predictable. Start with the quickstart, then choose the installation method that matches your stack.

## Start here

- [Complete the five-minute quickstart](https://cookiebeam.com/docs/getting-started/quickstart)
- [Install CookieBeam with a script tag](https://cookiebeam.com/docs/install/script-tag)
- [Install CookieBeam with Google Tag Manager](https://cookiebeam.com/docs/install/google-tag-manager)

## Browse by topic

- **Getting Started** — create a banner, install it, and verify the visitor experience.
- **Install** — deploy CookieBeam directly or through your tag-management workflow.
- **Configure** — control consent categories, regional behavior, languages, and blocking rules.
- **Integrations** — connect consent signals to analytics and advertising tools.
- **API Reference** — work with the browser API, REST API, webhooks, and consent records.
- **Compliance** — understand audit trails, consent proofs, retention, and data-subject workflows.
- **Operations** — publish safely, manage environments, monitor drift, and troubleshoot deployments.

## Read these docs as Markdown

AI agents and command-line tools can fetch any documentation page, guide, legal page or marketing page as Markdown instead of HTML. Ask for it with the `Accept` header:

```bash
curl -H 'Accept: text/markdown' https://cookiebeam.com/docs/install/script-tag
```

Or add `.md` to the page URL, which works in tools that cannot set headers:

```bash
curl https://cookiebeam.com/docs/install/script-tag.md
```

The response is `text/markdown` with YAML frontmatter (title, description and the canonical page URL) and an `x-markdown-tokens` header that estimates its size. Browsers keep getting HTML, because Markdown is only served when a request names `text/markdown` explicitly. Every page that has a Markdown version is listed at [/llms.txt](https://cookiebeam.com/llms.txt).