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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does abc.net.au block AI crawlers?

Yes. abc.net.au’s robots.txt blocks 9 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and 6 more. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotBlocked OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotBlocked PerplexityBotBlocked Google-ExtendedBlocked CCBotBlocked

robots.txt: www.abc.net.au/robots.txt · 138 lines
llms.txt: none
Checked: 9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

Every bot, and the line that decides

Search engines

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`Googlebot`	Google	Partly blocked	line 55 · `Disallow: /news/image/`
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Partly blocked	line 55 · `Disallow: /news/image/`
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot`	Apple	Partly blocked	line 55 · `Disallow: /news/image/`
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Blocked	line 121 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: PerplexityBot`
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YouBot`	You.com	Blocked	line 130 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: YouBot`

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 118 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: GPTBot`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 85 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: ClaudeBot`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Blocked	line 115 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Google-Extended`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Blocked	line 106 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: CCBot`
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Blocked	line 112 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Blocked	line 103 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Bytespider`

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 82 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: ChatGPT-User`
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DotBot`	Moz	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

View www.abc.net.au/robots.txt · 138 lines

1# robots.txt for http://www.abc.net.au/ -- ABC Online

2User-agent: *

3Disallow: /classic/contact/concerts.htm

4Disallow: /classic/contact/default.htm

5Disallow: /classic/contact/eventsdiary.htm

6Disallow: /classic/contact/formerror.htm

7Disallow: /classic/contact/formthanks.htm

8Disallow: /classic/contact/general.htm

9Disallow: /classic/contact/limelight.htm

10Disallow: /classic/contact/mailinglist.htm

11Disallow: /classic/contact/music.htm

12Disallow: /classic/contact/presenter.htm

13Disallow: /classic/contact/website.htm

14Disallow: /classic/contact/word.htm

15Disallow: /xmlcontent/

16Disallow: /classicfm/

18#OPSSD-340 2015/5/5

19Disallow: /iview/

23#INNG-46: 2014-12-30

24Disallow: /site-archive/

26# Added for corporate communications, as they have migrated to a new site

27Disallow: /corp/

28Disallow: /contact/

30# Added for Homepage Beta, prevent indexing during public beta

31Disallow: /homepage/2013/

32Disallow: /beta/

34# Added for WCMS Tennent testing, not a public

35Disallow: /abc4000/

37Disallow: /res/

39User-agent: Googlebot

40Crawl-delay: 5

42User-agent: Googlebot-Image

43Crawl-delay: 5

45User-agent: Bingbot

46Crawl-delay: 5

48User-agent: Slurp

49Crawl-delay: 5

51########################################

53User-agent: FlipboardProxy

54Crawl-delay: 2

55Disallow: /news/image/

57User-agent: iSec_Bot

58Disallow: /

60User-agent: TurnitinBot

61Disallow: /

63User-agent: ICC-Crawler

64Disallow: /

66User-agent: trendkite-akashic-crawler

67Disallow: /

69User-agent: TinEye-bot

70Disallow: /

72User-agent: R6_CommentReader

73Disallow: /

75User-agent: BLEXBot

76Disallow: /

78User-agent: Nutch

79Disallow: /

81User-agent: ChatGPT-User

82Disallow: /

84User-agent: ClaudeBot

85Disallow: /

87User-agent: Claude-Web

88Disallow: /

90User-agent: Timpibot

91Disallow: /

93User-agent: omgili

94Disallow: /

96User-agent: cohere-ai

97Disallow: /

99User-agent: anthropic-ai

100Disallow: /

101

102User-agent: Bytespider

103Disallow: /

104

105User-agent: CCBot

106Disallow: /

107

108User-agent: Diffbot

109Disallow: /

110

111User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent

112Disallow: /

113

114User-agent: Google-Extended

115Disallow: /

116

117User-agent: GPTBot

118Disallow: /

119

120User-agent: PerplexityBot

121Disallow: /

122

123User-agent: Omgilibot

124Disallow: /

125

126User-agent: Webzio-Extended

127Disallow: /

128

129User-agent: YouBot

130Disallow: /

131

132# sitemaps

133Sitemap: https://www.abc.net.au/sitemaps/sitemap-index.xml.gz

134

135# PLOPS-477

136User-agent: *

137Disallow: /gives*?query=*

138Disallow: /gives*&query=*

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what abc.net.au asks of crawlers. A firewall or CDN can still refuse a bot that robots.txt allows. The live check requests the page as each bot and shows the status it gets.

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History

19 October 2026: first checked.

Questions

Does abc.net.au block GPTBot?

Yes. abc.net.au’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 118: Disallow: /). GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does abc.net.au block ClaudeBot?

Yes. abc.net.au’s robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot from the whole site (line 85: Disallow: /). ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does abc.net.au block Google-Extended?

Yes. abc.net.au’s robots.txt disallows Google-Extended from the whole site (line 115: Disallow: /). Google-Extended is the token that controls whether Google may use pages for Gemini training and grounding; it doesn’t affect Google Search. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does abc.net.au block PerplexityBot?

Yes. abc.net.au’s robots.txt disallows PerplexityBot from the whole site (line 121: Disallow: /). PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find abc.net.au?

Yes. abc.net.au’s robots.txt lets OAI-SearchBot crawl the site. OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.