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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does alibaba.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. alibaba.com’s robots.txt blocks 2 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including GPTBot and Google-Extended. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotBlocked OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedBlocked CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.alibaba.com/atlassitemapsitenet/static/www_alibaba_com/robots.txt · 209 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 114 · `Disallow: /bin/` line 115 · `Disallow: /apps/` and 37 more
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Partly blocked	line 62 · `Disallow: /catalogs/products/` line 63 · `Disallow: /products/` and 39 more
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot`	Apple	Partly blocked	line 114 · `Disallow: /bin/` line 115 · `Disallow: /apps/` and 37 more
`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	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`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	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 206 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: GPTBot`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Google-Extended`	Google	Blocked	line 209 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Google-Extended`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`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.alibaba.com/atlassitemapsitenet/static/www_alibaba_com/robots.txt · 209 lines

1User-agent: *

2Allow: /lp/*?

3Allow: /*s=p

4Allow: /*?_escaped_fragment_

5Allow: /*src=sem_ggl

6Allow: *?src=sem_ggl

7Allow: /catalog/*?

8Allow: /product-detail/

9Allow: /showroom/

10Allow: *?spm=

11Allow: *?mark=google_shopping

12Disallow: /bin/

13Disallow: /apps/

14Disallow: /buy/

15Disallow: /memberhome/

16Disallow: /minisite/

17Disallow: /corporations/

18Disallow: /buyers/

19Disallow: /trade/

20Disallow: /product/

21Disallow: /supplier/guide/

22Disallow: /catalogs/corporations/

23Disallow: /rss/*/*.rss

24Disallow: /activities/

25Disallow: /productshowimg/

26Disallow: /member/*/contactinfo.html

27Disallow: /member/*/company_profile.html

28Disallow: /member/*/productlist.html

29Disallow: /searchweb/*.html

30Disallow: /magellan/*.html

31Disallow: /newsuppliers/

32Disallow: /wholesalecheckout/

33Disallow: /buyofferdetail/

34Disallow: /industry-promotion/

35Disallow: /city/

36Disallow: /countrysearch/*/*-importer.html

37Disallow: /countrysearch/*/*/importers/*.html

38Disallow: /search/buyeroffers/*.html

39Disallow: /search/buyeroffers/*/*.html

40Disallow: /buyeroffers/*/*.html

41Disallow: /buyeroffers/*/*/*.html

42Disallow: /detail/ajax/

43Disallow: /ajax/seoRequest/

44Disallow: /event/

45Disallow: /cache/

46Disallow: /catalogs/products/

47Disallow: /products/

48Disallow: /https:/www.alibaba.com/

49Disallow: /compass/

50Disallow: /product-detail/m.alibaba.com/trade/

51Disallow: /messages/

52Disallow: /supplier-report/

53Disallow: /amp/

54Disallow: /showroom/https:/s.alicdn.com/

56User-agent: bingbot

57Allow: /*s=p

58Allow: /*?_escaped_fragment_

59Allow: *?src=sem_ggl

60Allow: /catalog/*?

61Allow: *?mark=google_shopping

62Disallow: /catalogs/products/

63Disallow: /products/

64Disallow: /bin/

65Disallow: /apps/

66Disallow: /buy/

67Disallow: /memberhome/

68Disallow: /minisite/

69Disallow: /corporations/

70Disallow: /buyers/

71Disallow: /trade/

72Disallow: /product/

73Disallow: /catalogs/corporations/

74Disallow: /rss/*/*.rss

75Disallow: /activities/

76Disallow: /productshowimg/

77Disallow: /member/*/contactinfo.html

78Disallow: /member/*/company_profile.html

79Disallow: /member/*/productlist.html

80Disallow: /searchweb/*.html

81Disallow: /magellan/*.html

82Disallow: /newsuppliers/

83Disallow: /wholesalecheckout/

84Disallow: /buyofferdetail/

85Disallow: /industry-promotion/

86Disallow: /city/

87Disallow: /countrysearch/*/*-importer.html

88Disallow: /countrysearch/*/*/importers/*.html

89Disallow: /search/buyeroffers/*.html

90Disallow: /search/buyeroffers/*/*.html

91Disallow: /buyeroffers/*/*.html

92Disallow: /buyeroffers/*/*/*.html

93Disallow: /detail/ajax/

94Disallow: /ajax/seoRequest/

95Disallow: /event/

96Disallow: /cache/

97Disallow: /catalogs/products/

98Disallow: /products/

99Disallow: /https:/www.alibaba.com/

100Disallow:/compass/

101Disallow: /product-detail/alisite-mobile.alibaba.com/

102Disallow:/product-detail/m.alibaba.com/trade/

103

104User-agent: Googlebot

105Allow: /*s=p

106Allow: /*?_escaped_fragment_

107Allow: *?src=sem_ggl

108Allow: /catalog/*?

109Allow: /product-detail/

110Allow: /showroom/

111Allow: *?spm=

112Allow: *?mark=google_shopping

113Allow: /lp/*?

114Disallow: /bin/

115Disallow: /apps/

116Disallow: /buy/

117Disallow: /memberhome/

118Disallow: /minisite/

119Disallow: /corporations/

120Disallow: /buyers/

121Disallow: /trade/

122Disallow: /product/

123Disallow: /catalogs/corporations/

124Disallow: /rss/*/*.rss

125Disallow: /activities/

126Disallow: /productshowimg/

127Disallow: /member/*/contactinfo.html

128Disallow: /member/*/company_profile.html

129Disallow: /member/*/productlist.html

130Disallow: /searchweb/*.html

131Disallow: /magellan/*.html

132Disallow: /newsuppliers/

133Disallow: /wholesalecheckout/

134Disallow: /buyofferdetail/

135Disallow: /industry-promotion/

136Disallow: /city/

137Disallow: /countrysearch/*/*-importer.html

138Disallow: /countrysearch/*/*/importers/*.html

139Disallow: /search/buyeroffers/*.html

140Disallow: /search/buyeroffers/*/*.html

141Disallow: /buyeroffers/*/*.html

142Disallow: /buyeroffers/*/*/*.html

143Disallow: /detail/ajax/

144Disallow: /ajax/seoRequest/

145Disallow: /event/

146Disallow: /cache/

147Disallow: /catalogs/products/

148Disallow: /products/

149Disallow: /https:/www.alibaba.com/

150Disallow:/compass/

151Disallow: /product-detail/alisite-mobile.alibaba.com/

152Disallow: /product-insights/

153

154User-agent: Googlebot-image

155Allow: /lp/*?

156Allow: /*s=p

157Allow: /*?_escaped_fragment_

158Allow: /*src=sem_ggl

159Allow: *?src=sem_ggl

160Allow: /catalog/*?

161Allow: /product-detail/

162Allow: /showroom/

163Allow: *?spm=

164Allow: *?mark=google_shopping

165Disallow: /bin/

166Disallow: /apps/

167Disallow: /buy/

168Disallow: /memberhome/

169Disallow: /minisite/

170Disallow: /corporations/

171Disallow: /buyers/

172Disallow: /trade/

173Disallow: /product/

174Disallow: /catalogs/corporations/

175Disallow: /rss/*/*.rss

176Disallow: /activities/

177Disallow: /productshowimg/

178Disallow: /member/*/contactinfo.html

179Disallow: /member/*/company_profile.html

180Disallow: /member/*/productlist.html

181Disallow: /searchweb/*.html

182Disallow: /magellan/*.html

183Disallow: /newsuppliers/

184Disallow: /wholesalecheckout/

185Disallow: /buyofferdetail/

186Disallow: /industry-promotion/

187Disallow: /city/

188Disallow: /countrysearch/*/*-importer.html

189Disallow: /countrysearch/*/*/importers/*.html

190Disallow: /search/buyeroffers/*.html

191Disallow: /search/buyeroffers/*/*.html

192Disallow: /buyeroffers/*/*.html

193Disallow: /buyeroffers/*/*/*.html

194Disallow: /detail/ajax/

195Disallow: /ajax/seoRequest/

196Disallow: /event/

197Disallow: /cache/

198Disallow: /catalogs/products/

199Disallow: /products/

200Disallow: /https:/www.alibaba.com/

201Disallow: /product-detail/alisite-mobile.alibaba.com/

202Disallow:/compass/

203Disallow:/product-detail/m.alibaba.com/trade/

204

205User-agent: GPTBot

206Disallow: /

207

208User-agent: Google-Extended

209Disallow: /

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what alibaba.com 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 alibaba.com block GPTBot?

Yes. alibaba.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 206: 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 alibaba.com block ClaudeBot?

No. alibaba.com’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does alibaba.com block Google-Extended?

Yes. alibaba.com’s robots.txt disallows Google-Extended from the whole site (line 209: 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 alibaba.com block PerplexityBot?

No. alibaba.com’s robots.txt lets PerplexityBot crawl the site. PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find alibaba.com?

Yes. alibaba.com’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.