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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does aliexpress.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. aliexpress.com’s robots.txt blocks 6 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and 3 more. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotBlocked OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotBlocked PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedBlocked CCBotBlocked

robots.txt: www.aliexpress.com/robots.txt · 108 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	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Partly blocked	line 44 · `Disallow: /bin/` line 45 · `Disallow: /search/` and 33 more
`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	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Amazonbot`
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 81 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: GPTBot`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 90 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: ClaudeBot`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Blocked	line 87 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Google-Extended`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Blocked	line 84 · `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	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Blocked	line 96 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Bytespider`

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	Blocked	line 99 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: SemrushBot`
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DotBot`	Moz	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

View www.aliexpress.com/robots.txt · 108 lines

1User-agent: *

2Disallow: /items/*

3Disallow: /bin/*

4Disallow: /search/*

5Allow: /wholesale.html$

6Allow: /wholesale-page-*.html

7Disallow: /productdetail/*

8Allow: /api/data_homepage.do

9Disallow: /api/*

10Disallow: /api*.do

11Disallow: /apps/*

12Disallow: /downloads/*

13Disallow: /wishlist/*

14Disallow: /shopcart/*

15Disallow: /brands/*

16Disallow: /cp/*

17Disallow: /item-img/*

18Disallow: /product/*

19Disallow: /p4p*list.html

20Disallow: /orderList.html

21Disallow: /ws*api-server.html$

22Disallow: /*mmend.htm$

23Disallow: /*Ajax.htm$

24Disallow: /*ajax.htm$

25Disallow: /store/*ajax.htm$

26Disallow: /detail/*Ajax.do$

27Disallow: /ajax*.do$

28Disallow: /__pc/*

29Disallow: /__mobile/*

30Disallow: /seo/*

31Disallow: /cross-domain/*

32Disallow: /*store/group/*

33Disallow: /*store/sale-items/*

34Disallow: /store/all-wholesale-products/*

35Disallow: /*store/top-rated-products/*

36Allow: /i/api/reviews

37Disallow: /i/api/*

38Disallow: /gcp/300000414/regulatedinformation

39Disallow: /img/wsproduct/sku/*

40Disallow: */aeglodetailweb/api/msite/item?productId*

42User-agent: YandexBot

43Crawl-delay: 0.5

44Disallow: /bin/*

45Disallow: /search/*

46Disallow: /wholesale*

47Disallow: /productdetail/*

48Disallow: /api/*

49Disallow: /api*.do

50Disallow: /apps/*

51Disallow: /downloads/*

52Disallow: /wishlist/*

53Disallow: /shopcart/*

54Disallow: /brands/*

55Disallow: /cp/*

56Disallow: /item-img/*

57Disallow: /product/*

58Disallow: /p4p*list.html

59Disallow: /orderList.html

60Disallow: /ws*api-server.html$

61Disallow: /*mmend.htm$

62Disallow: /*Ajax.htm$

63Disallow: /*ajax.htm$

64Disallow: /store/*ajax.htm$

65Disallow: /detail/*Ajax.do$

66Disallow: /ajax*.do$

67Disallow: /__pc/*

68Disallow: /__mobile/*

69Disallow: /seo/*

70Disallow: /cross-domain/*

71Disallow: /*store/group/*

72Disallow: /*store/sale-items/*

73Disallow: /store/all-wholesale-products/*

74Disallow: /*store/top-rated-products/*

75Disallow: /i/api/*

76Disallow: /gcp/300000414/regulatedinformation

77Disallow: /img/wsproduct/sku/*

78Disallow: */aeglodetailweb/api/msite/item?productId*

80User-agent: GPTBot

81Disallow: /

83User-agent: CCBot

84Disallow: /

86User-agent: Google-Extended

87Disallow: /

89User-agent: ClaudeBot

90Disallow: /

92User-agent: Amazonbot

93Disallow: /

95User-agent: Bytespider

96Disallow: /

98User-agent: SemrushBot

99Disallow: /

100

101Sitemap: https://www.aliexpress.com/sitemap/en-https-item-item-2026-P0-sitemap-index.xml

102Sitemap: https://www.aliexpress.com/sitemap/en-https-item-item-2026-P1-sitemap-index.xml

103Sitemap: https://www.aliexpress.com/sitemap/en-https-wholesale-2025-w-commercial-local-sitemap-index.xml

104Sitemap: https://www.aliexpress.com/sitemap/en-https-wholesale-2025-w-informational-localsitemap-index.xml

105Sitemap: https://www.aliexpress.com/sitemap/en-https-wholesale-2025-w-brand-local-sitemap-index.xml

106Sitemap: https://www.aliexpress.com/sitemap/en-https-wholesale-2025-p-transactional-local-sitemap-index.xml

107Sitemap: https://www.aliexpress.com/sitemap/en-https-mlh-2026-sitemap-index.xml

108Sitemap: https://www.aliexpress.com/sitemap/en-https-spot-2026-sitemap-index.xml

What do the bots actually get?

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

Yes. aliexpress.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 81: 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 aliexpress.com block ClaudeBot?

Yes. aliexpress.com’s robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot from the whole site (line 90: Disallow: /). ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does aliexpress.com block Google-Extended?

Yes. aliexpress.com’s robots.txt disallows Google-Extended from the whole site (line 87: 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 aliexpress.com block PerplexityBot?

No. aliexpress.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 aliexpress.com?

Yes. aliexpress.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.